Birdbeak dogfish

Deania calceus

Birdbeak snout with pitchfork denticles

Transcontinental
Marine fish
Atlantic Ocean
Indian Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Africa
East Asia
Europe
Oceania
South America
Southeast Asia
Elongated
Large

The birdbeak dogfish (Deania calcea) is a dogfish shark of the family Centrophoridae found in the Pacific Ocean around Honshū, Japan, southern Australia, New Zealand, and Chile, and in the Atlantic Ocean from Iceland south to the Cape of Good Hope. The birdbeak dogfish has a very long, narrow snout, no anal fin, two long and low dorsal fins with grooved spines, small rectangular pectoral fins, and pitchfork-like denticles. It lives at depths between 73 and 1,450 m.

Class: Sharks and Rays
Order: Dogfish Sharks
Family: Centrophoridae
Genus: Deania
Maximum length: 127 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: elongated
Distribution: East Atlantic: Iceland to South Africa. Indian Ocean: South Africa, southern Madagascar, southern Australia. Pacific Ocean: Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, southeast Australia, New Zealand, and Peru to Chile.
Conservation status: NTNear Threatened

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