- Blackgill catshark
Taxobox
name = Blackgill catshark
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regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis =Chondrichthyes
subclassis =Elasmobranchii
ordo =Carcharhiniformes
familia =Scyliorhinidae
genus =Parmaturus
species = "P. melanobranchus"
binomial = "Parmaturus melanobranchus"
binomial_authority = (Chan, 1966)The blackgill catshark, "Parmaturus melanobranchus", is acat shark of the familyScyliorhinidae , found only in theSouth China Sea , at depths of between 540 and 810 m. The maximum length of the only 3 specimens taken is 85 cm. The blackgill catshark is a poorly known deep-water bottom-dwelling catshark found on mud bottoms of the uppercontinental slope s.Coloration is light brown with distal parts and anterior margins of fins, snout, nostrils, and gills blackish brown in young, possibly uniform blackish brown in adults.
Reproduction is
oviparous .ee also
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List of sharks References
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