Zameus squamulosus (Gunther 1877)
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Elasmobranchii
- order
- Squaliformes
- family
- Somniosidae
- genus
- Zameus
- species
- Zameus squamulosus
description
Velvet Dogfish. To 115 cm (45.3 in) TL (Santos et al. 2020). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Kuril Islands (Ebert et al. 2013); one record from southern California (33 ° 43 ’ N, 118 ° 32 ’ W) (Daniel Kamikawa, pers. comm. to M. L.); Peru and Chile (Ebert 2016). Depth: surface to 1,511 m (4,956 ft) (min.: Compagno in Carpenter and De Angelis 2016; max.: Weigman 2016), perhaps to about 2,000 m (6,560 ft), but without documentation (Roberts et al. 2015).
Name
- Homonyms
- Zameus squamulosus (Gunther 1877)