South China cookiecutter shark

South China cookiecutter shark

Taxobox
name = South China cookiecutter shark
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regnum = Animalia
subregnum = Deuterostomia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Chondrichthyes
subclassis = Elasmobranchii
ordo = Squaliformes
familia = Dalatiidae
genus = "Isistius"
species = "I. labialis"
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range_map_caption = Range of South China cookiecutter shark (in blue)
binomial = "Isistius labialis"
binomial_authority = Meng, Zhu & Li, 1985
The South China cookiecutter shark, "Isistius labialis", is a sleeper shark of the family Dalatiidae found in the South China Sea at depths down to 520 m. It is named from its feeding style which often creates perfect "cookie-cutter" shaped plugs in the skin of large marine mammals and large sharks.

Reproduction is aplacental viviparity in the same way as great white sharks.

ee also

* List of sharks
* Deep sea fish

References

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