Birdbeak Dogfish

Deania calceus

Classification

Class: Elasmobranchii
Order: Squaliformes
Family: Centrophoridae

The birdbeak dogfish (Deania calcea) is a dogfish shark of the family Centrophoridae found in the Pacific Ocean around Honshū, Japan, southern Australia, New Zealand, and Chile, and in the Atlantic Ocean from Iceland south to the Cape of Good Hope. The birdbeak dogfish has a very long, narrow snout, no anal fin, two long and low dorsal fins with grooved spines, small rectangular pectoral fins, and pitchfork-like denticles. It lives at depths between 73 and 1,450 m.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Sources and credits

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Birdbeak Dogfish

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