Sparsetooth dogfish
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Species of shark
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Squaliformes |
| Family: | Somniosidae |
| Genus: | Scymnodalatias |
| Species: | S. oligodon
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| Binomial name | |
| Scymnodalatias oligodon Kukuev & Konovalenko, 1988
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| Range of the sparsetooth dogfish (in blue) | |
The sparsetooth dogfish (Scymnodalatias oligodon) is a very rare sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae, the holotype of which was taken in the subtropical southeast Pacific at a depth of up to 200 m. Its biology is unknown.
References
[edit]- ^ Ebert, D.A.; Concha, F.; Herman, K.; Kyne, P.M. (2020). "Scymnodalatias oligodon". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T44570A124433192. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T44570A124433192.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Scymnodalatias oligodon". FishBase. July 2006 version.
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