Southern sawtail catshark

Taxobox
name = Southern sawtail catshark
status = VU | status_system = IUCN3.1
trend =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Chondrichthyes
ordo = Carcharhiniformes
familia = Scyliorhinidae
genus = "Galeus"
species = "G. arae"
binomial = "Galeus arae"
binomial_authority = Soto, 2001

The southern sawtail catshark, "Galeus arae", is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found only from southern Brazil, at depths down to 430 m. Its length is up to 40 cm.

The southern sawtail catshark inhabits deep reefs in the shelf break, and are often found in depths greater than 400 m, with gorgonians, hard corals, tube sponges, crinoids, ophiuroids, and a great number of the sympatric freckled catshark, "Scyliorhinus haeckelii".

References

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* Compagno, Dando, & Fowler, "Sharks of the World", Princeton University Press, New Jersey 2005 ISBN 0-691-12072-2