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Longnose Velvet Dogfish

Centroscymnus crepidater (Barbosa du Bocage & de Brito Capello 1864)

Description

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Not so well known but fairly common deepwater dogfish found on the upper continental slopes. Feeds on lanternfishes. Ovoviviparous, with 4 young in a litter.
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bibliographic citation
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2019). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2019).
contributor
Edward Vanden Berghe [email]