Deepwater dogfish

The longnose velvet dogfish, Centroscymnus crepidater, is a sleeper shark of the family Dalatiidae, found circumglobally in southern hemisphere subtropical seas, at depths of between 230 and 1,500 m.

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The Deepwater dogfish lives in the bathydemersal, marine, depth range 230 - 1500 m environment.

deepwater dogfish is highly prized. Gillnets are a particularly lethal form of fishing. If the fishing net gets lost, it acts like a "ghost net" and continues to catch fish as it bobs about in the ocean. More

productivity of the deepwater dogfish resource in southern Australia. Report by CSIRO Marine Research and NSW Fisheries to the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation. FRDC Project 1998/108. Fenton, G.E. 2001. Radiometric Ageing Of Sharks. FRDC Final Report, 1994/021. Fisheries Research & Development Corporation, Canberra. More

deepwater dogfish of the family Centrophoridae. More

deepwater dogfish of the outer continental and insular shelves and upper slopes from 73 to 1450m depth, on or near the Distribution: South and Northeast off Taiwan; Eastern North Atlantic; Western Pacific. More

perryi or Dwarf Lanternshark, a deepwater dogfish shark that calls the Caribbean Sea home. A full grown female comes in at about 7 1/2 ferocious inches while the male Dwarf Lanternshark reaches only 6 inches. More

deepwater dogfish is highly prized. A spokesman for the New Zealand Minister for Fisheries, Phil Heatley, has told ABC News Online: "There are mechanics to deal with these issues and we will work through official channels. More

Annual whole weight and value of deepwater dogfish sold in Australia FIGURE 1 In Sydney, the mean price of black roughskin shark has increased from $A1.77 kg in 1992 to $A4.23 kg in 2002, while the price of endeavour shark has remained between $A3.10 and $A3. More

A large deepwater dogfish of the outer continental shelves and upper slopes,at depths between 300 to 1400 m. Ovoviviparous, number of young 1 to 6 per litter. Eats bony fishes, squid, small dogfish sharks, and lobsters. More

deepwater dogfish shark of the family Dalatiidae, so far found only in the western Pacific in Suruga Bay, Honshū, Japan. The bareskin dogfish has no anal fin. More

Little is known of this deepwater dogfish, which has been recorded from the continental and insular slopes at depths of 400 to 1,143 m (Compagno, in prep. a), although recorded off Chile as shallow as 300 m and off California in depths of 250 to 1,250 m (D. More

The Granular Dogfish is a small, poorly known deepwater dogfish of the family Dalatiidae. The species is endemic to the southwest Atlantic Ocean, more specifically the Falkland Islands, and off Chile in the eastern south Pacific. Habitat: Up to 1,475 ft. More

The smallest shark is a deepwater dogfish shark found in the Caribbean Sea. When full grown it measures a mere 8 inches! …By 1500 AD, there were 40 Calusa villages in Southwest Florida, numbering about 3,000 people. More

productivity of the deepwater dogfish resource in southern Australia. Report by CSIRO Marine Research and NSW Fisheries to the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation. FRDC Project 1998/108. * Ebert, D.A. More

Common names

Black shark in English
Centroselachus crepidater in French (français)
Deepwater dogfish in English
Golden dogfish in English
Langitrantur in Faroese (Føroyskt)
Långnospailona in Swedish (Svenska)
Langschnauzen-Dornhai in German (Deutsch)
Langsnudet fløjlshaj in Danish (dansk)
Langsnuitijshaai in Dutch (Nederlands)
Longnose dogfish in English
longnose velvet dogfish in English
Ostroun sametový dlouhonosý in Czech (česky)
Pailona à long nez in French (français)
Pailona negra in Spanish (español)
Roughskin dogfish in English
Sapata negra in Spanish (español)
Sapata preta in Portuguese (Português)
Sapata-de-natura in Portuguese (Português)
Sapata-preta in Portuguese (Português)
Smallspine dogfish in English
Þorsteinsháfur in Icelandic (Íslenska)
長吻荊鯊 in Mandarin Chinese
长吻荆鲨 in Mandarin Chinese

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Order : Squaliformes
Family : Somniosidae
Genus : Centroselachus
Species : Centroselachus crepidater
Authority : Barbosa du Bocage & deBrito Capello, 1864