Caribbean roughshark

Caribbean roughshark
Caribbean roughshark
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Squaliformes
Family: Oxynotidae
Genus: Oxynotus
Species: O. caribbaeus
Binomial name
Oxynotus caribbaeus
Cervigón, 1961
Range of the Caribbean roughshark (in blue)

The Caribbean roughshark, Oxynotus caribbaeus, is a sleeper shark of the family Oxynotidae, found on the upper continental slopes of the Caribbean Sea, at depths of between 400 and 450 m. It reaches a length of about 50 cm.

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