''Centroscyllium'' is a
genus of big-eyed, deepwater
dogfishes with no
anal fin
Fins are distinctive anatomical features composed of bony spines or rays protruding from the body of a fish. They are covered with skin and joined together either in a webbed fashion, as seen in most bony fish, or similar to a flipper, as se ...
, a grey or black-brown body, and dorsal spines, with the second one being much larger than the first. Seven extant species are described.
Species
* ''
Centroscyllium excelsum''
Shirai & Nakaya, 1990 (highfin dogfish)
* ''
Centroscyllium fabricii''
J. C. H. Reinhardt, 1825 (black dogfish)
* ''
Centroscyllium granulatum''
Günther, 1887 (granular dogfish)
* ''
Centroscyllium kamoharai''
T. Abe, 1966 (bareskin dogfish)
* ''
Centroscyllium nigrum''
Garman, 1899 (combtooth dogfish)
* ''
Centroscyllium ornatum
The ornate dogfish (''Centroscyllium ornatum'') is Squaliformes, dogfish shark which is not widely known. It is found in deepwater on the continental shelf, continental slopes of the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, at depths ...
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Alcock Alcock is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Notable people with the surname Alcock
* Alfred William Alcock, British naturalist
* C. W. Alcock, British sports administrator and creator of the FA Cup
* Charles R. Alcock, American ...
, 1889 (ornate dogfish)
* ''
Centroscyllium ritteri''
Jordan & Fowler, 1903 (whitefin dogfish)
References
Shark genera
Taxa named by Johannes Peter Müller
Taxa named by Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle
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