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Fleshynose Catshark
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Fleshynose Catshark

Apristurus melanoasper

The black roughscale catshark (Apristurus melanoasper) is a catshark of the family Scyliorhinidae, found at the northwest Atlantic continental shelf at depths between 510 and 1,520 m. It can grow up to 76 cm (30 in).

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 94456.