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Apristurus aphyodes

Apristurus aphyodes, the white ghost catshark, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in deep water in the northeast Atlantic between latitudes 57°N and 58°N.

Australian spotted catshark

The Australian spotted catshark, Asymbolus analis, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found only around Australia between latitudes 32° S and 38° S, at depths of between 10 and 180 m.

Blackspotted catshark

The blackspotted catshark, Halaelurus buergeri, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae, found from Japan, Korea, China, and Taiwan between latitudes 39° N and 20° N, at depths of between 80 and 100 m.

Boa catshark

The boa catshark, Scyliorhinus boa, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found on the continental shelves and insular slopes of the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico between latitudes 20° N and 9° N, at depths of between 330 and 675 m.

Bristly catshark

The bristly catshark, Bythaelurus hispidus, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae, found from southeastern India and the Andaman Islands between latitudes 15° N and 5° N, at depths of between 200 and 300 m.

Broadgill catshark

The broadgill catshark, Apristurus riveri, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, between latitudes 30° N and 9° N, on the continental slopes at depths of between 700 and 1,500 m.

Broadnose catshark

The broadnose catshark, Apristurus investigatoris, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae the holotype and only specimen being found in deepwater in the Andaman Sea in the Indian Ocean between latitudes 16° N and 10° N.

Brownspotted catshark

The brownspotted catshark, Scyliorhinus garmani, is a rare cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the Indo-West Pacific between latitudes 11° N and 12° S.

Deepwater catshark

The deepwater catshark, Apristurus profundorum, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the western Atlantic from Delaware Bay and Suriname, and from the eastern Atlantic from Morocco and northwest Africa.

Freckled catshark

The freckled catshark, Scyliorhinus haeckelii, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found on the continental shelf and upper slope from the western Atlantic from western Venezuela, Suriname, Brazil, and Uruguay between latitudes 11° N and 32° S.

Japanese catshark

The Japanese catshark, Apristurus japonicus, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the northwest Pacific from off Chiba Prefecture, Honshū, Japan between latitudes 36° N and 34° N.

Largenose catshark

The largenose catshark, Apristurus nasutus, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found on the upper continental slopes in the eastern Pacific from the Gulf of Panama, Ecuador and central Chile, between latitudes 9° N and 28° S.

Narrowmouthed catshark

The narrowmouthed catshark, Schroederichthys bivius, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found from central Chile around the Straits of Magellan to Argentina between latitudes 23° S and 56° S, at depths of between 15 and 80 metres.

Narrowtail catshark

The narrowtail catshark, Schroederichthys maculatus, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found off Honduras and Nicaragua between latitudes 18° N and 10° N, at depths of between 190 and 410 metres.

Panama ghost catshark

The Panama ghost catshark, Apristurus stenseni, is a poorly known cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found only off Panama, between latitudes 9° N and 2° N.

Polkadot catshark

The polkadot catshark, Scyliorhinus besnardi, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found on the outer continental shelf off northern Uruguay between latitudes 31° S and 39° S, at depths of between 140 and 190 m.

Spatulasnout catshark

The spatulasnout cat shark, Apristurus platyrhynchus, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the western Pacific between latitudes 35° N and 1° N.

Speckled catshark

The speckled catshark, Halaelurus boesemani, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae, found in the Gulf of Aden and off Somalia, also known around Viet Nam, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Western Australia, between latitudes 21° N and 26° S, at depths of between 40 and 250 m.

West African catshark

The West African catshark, Scyliorhinus cervigoni, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found from the eastern Atlantic between latitudes 20° N and 17° S, at depths between 45 and 500 m.

White-spotted Izak

The white-spotted Izak or African spotted catshark, Holohalaelurus punctatus, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae, found in the western Indian Ocean off Natal, South Africa, southern Mozambique, Madagascar, Kenya and Tanzania between latitudes 4° S and 37° S, at depths of between 220 and 440 m.

Yellowspotted catshark

The yellowspotted catshark, Scyliorhinus capensis, is a rare cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the southeast Atlantic from Lüderitz, Namibia to central Natal, South Africa between latitudes and 37° S.


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