Species
The 41 currently recognized species in this genus are: * ''Apristurus albisoma'' Kazuhiro Nakaya, Nakaya & Bernard Séret, Séret, 1999 (white-bodied catshark) * ''Roughskin catshark, Apristurus ampliceps'' Ryohei Sasahara, Sasahara, Keiichi Sato (ichthyologist), Sato & Nakaya, 2008 (roughskin catshark) * ''White ghost catshark, Apristurus aphyodes'' Nakaya & Matthias Stehmann, Stehmann, 1998 (white ghost catshark) * ''Pinocchio catshark, Apristurus australis'' Sato, Nakaya & Michikazu Yorozu, Yorozu, 2008 (Pinocchio catshark) * ''Shortbelly catshark, Apristurus breviventralis'' Junro Kawauchi, Kawauchi, Simon Weigmann, Weigmann & Nakaya, 2014 (shortbelly catshark) * ''Brown catshark, Apristurus brunneus'' Charles Henry Gilbert, C. H. Gilbert, 1892 (brown catshark) * ''Bighead catshark, Apristurus bucephalus'' William Toby White, W. T. White, Peter R. Last, Last & John J. Pogonoski, Pogonoski, 2008 (bighead catshark) * ''Hoary catshark, Apristurus canutus'' Stewart Springer, S. Springer & Phillip C. Heemstra, Heemstra, 1979 (hoary catshark) * ''Flaccid catshark, Apristurus exsanguis'' Sato, Nakaya & Andrew L. Stewart, A. L. Stewart, 1999 (flaccid catshark) * ''Fedorov's catshark, Apristurus fedorovi'' Vladimir Nikolaevich Dolganov, Dolganov, 1985 (Fedorov's catshark) * ''Garrick's catshark, Apristurus garricki'' Sato, A.L. Stewart & Nakaya, 2013 (Garrick's catshark) * ''Humpback catshark, Apristurus gibbosus'' Chu Yuan-Ting, Y. T. Chu, Meng Qing-Wen, Q. W. Meng & Li Sheng (ichthyologist), S. Li, 1985 (humpback catshark) * ''Longfin catshark, Apristurus herklotsi'' Henry Weed Fowler, Fowler, 1934 (longfin catshark) * ''Smallbelly catshark, Apristurus indicus'' August Bernhard Brauer, A. B. Brauer, 1906 (smallbelly catshark) * ''Shortnose demon catshark, Apristurus internatus'' Deng Si-Ming, S. M. Deng, Xiong Guo-Qiang, G. Q. Xiong & Zhan Hong-Xi, H. X. Zhan, 1988 (shortnose demon catshark) * ''Broadnose catshark, Apristurus investigatoris'' Kamla Sankar Misra, Misra, 1962 (broadnose catshark) * ''Japanese catshark, Apristurus japonicus'' Nakaya, 1975 (Japanese catshark) * ''Longnose catshark, Apristurus kampae'' Leighton R. Taylor, L. R. Taylor, 1972 (longnose catshark) * ''Iceland catshark, Apristurus laurussonii'' Bjarni Sæmundsson, Sæmundsson, 1922 (Iceland catshark) * ''Longhead catshark, Apristurus longicephalus'' Nakaya, 1975 (longhead catshark) * ''Flathead catshark, Apristurus macrorhynchus'' Shigeho Tanaka, S. Tanaka (I), 1909 (flathead catshark) * ''Broadmouth catshark, Apristurus macrostomus'' Q. W. Meng, Y. T. Chu & S. Li, 1985 (broadmouth catshark) * ''Ghost catshark, Apristurus manis'' S. Springer, 1979 (ghost catshark) *''Apristurus manocheriani'' Justin A. Cordova, Cordova & David A. Ebert, Ebert 2021, (Manocherian's Catshark) * ''Black roughscale catshark, Apristurus melanoasper'' Samuel Paco Iglésias, Iglésias, Nakaya & Stehmann, 2004 (black roughscale catshark) * ''Smalleye catshark, Apristurus microps'' John Dow Fisher Gilchrist, Gilchrist, 1922 (smalleye catshark) * ''Smalldorsal catshark, Apristurus micropterygeus'' Q. W. Meng, Y. T. Chu & S. Li, 1986 (smalldorsal catshark) * ''Milk-eye catshark, Apristurus nakayai'' Iglésias, 2013 (milk-eye catshark) * ''Largenose catshark, Apristurus nasutus'' Don Fernando de Buen y Lozano, F. de Buen, 1959 (largenose catshark) * ''Apristurus ovicorrugatus'' William T. White, White, Helen L. O'Neill, O'Neill, Floriaan Devloo-Delva, Devloo-Delva, Nakaya & Iglésias, 2023 (ridged-egg catshark) * ''Smallfin catshark, Apristurus parvipinnis'' S. Springer, 1979 & Phillip C. Heemstra, Heemstra, 1979 (smallfin catshark) * ''Fat catshark, Apristurus pinguis'' Deng Si-Ming, S. M. Deng, Xiong Guo-Qiang, G. Q. Xiong & Zhan Hong-Xi, H. X. Zhan, 1983 (bulldog catshark) * ''Spatulasnout catshark, Apristurus platyrhynchus'' S. Tanaka (I), 1909 (spatulasnout catshark or Borneo catshark) * ''Deep-water catshark, Apristurus profundorum'' George Brown Goode, Goode & Tarleton Hoffman Bean, T. H. Bean, 1896 (deepwater catshark) * ''Broadgill catshark, Apristurus riveri'' Henry Bryant Bigelow, Bigelow & William Charles Schroeder, Schroeder, 1944 (broadgill catshark) * ''Saldanha catshark, Apristurus saldanha'' Keppel Harcourt Barnard, Barnard, 1925 (Saldanha catshark) *''Apristurus sereti'' Adnet, 2006 * ''Pale catshark, Apristurus sibogae'' Max Carl Wilhelm Weber, M. C. W. Weber, 1913 (pale catshark) * ''South China catshark, Apristurus sinensis'' Chu Yuan-Ting, Y. T. Chu & Hu Ai-Sun, A. S. Hu, 1981 (South China catshark) * ''Spongehead catshark, Apristurus spongiceps'' C. H. Gilbert, 1905 (spongehead catshark) * ''Panama ghost catshark, Apristurus stenseni'' S. Springer, 1979, 1979 (Panama ghost catshark) * ''Apristurus yangi'' White, Mana & Naylor, 2017 (Yang’s longnose catshark) * ''Apristurus'' sp. X Not yet described (Galbraith's catshark) * ''Apristurus'' sp. 3 Not yet described (black wonder catshark) * ''Apristurus'' sp. ''nov.'' Not yet described (white-edged catshark) * ''Apristurus'' sp. Not yet described (gray ghost catshark)References
{{Taxonbar, from=Q1707527 Apristurus, Pentanchidae Shark genera Taxa named by Samuel Garman