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GBIF·2418451speciesAnimalia12 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classElasmobranchii
  4. ›orderCarcharhiniformes
  5. ›familyScyliorhinidae
  6. ›genusApristurus
Apristurus japonicus
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Japanese catshark

Apristurus japonicus Nakaya, 1975

Also calledJapanischer Katzenhai (deu) · Japanse kathaai (nld) · Nihon-herazame (jpn) · Nihonherazame (jpn) · máčka japonská (ces) · Японская чёрная кошачья акула (rus) · ニホンヘラザメ (jpn)

First described in: Nakaya, Kazuhiro. 1975. Taxonomy, comparative anatomy and phylogeny of Japanese catsharks, Scyliorhinidae. Memoirs of the Faculty of Fisheries Hokkaido University 23(1): 1-94.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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Every page naming Apristurus japonicus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2418451.