- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classElasmobranchii
- ›orderCarcharhiniformes
- ›familyScyliorhinidae
- ›genusApristurus
Brown catshark
Apristurus brunneus (Gilbert, 1892)
Also calledBruine kathaai (nld) · Gattuccio fantasma bruno (ita) · Tubarão-gato-fantasma (por) · holbiche brune (fra) · máčka hnědá (ces) · pejegato marrón (spa) · roussette (fra) · ruskokissahai (fin) · Коричневая кошачья акула (rus)
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
description
Brown Cat Shark. To 73.5 cm (28.7 in) TL (NWFSC-FRAM). Icy Point (58 ° N), south-eastern Alaska (Wilson and Hughes 1978) to central Baja California (28 ° 48 ’ N) (Cruz-Acevedo et al. 2018); Panama (Compagno 1984) to Chile (Ebert 2016); Islas Revillagigedo, Mexico (Becerril-García et al. 2020). At bottom to well off bottom; depth: 24 – 1,341 m (79 – 4,398 ft) (Weigmann 2016). 1,401 m (4,595 ft) (Morera et al. 2019).
Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2418465.