Speckled catshark
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| Species: | H. boesemani
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| Halaelurus boesemani Springer & D'Aubrey, 1972
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The speckled catshark, Halaelurus boesemani, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae, found from the Gulf of Aden and off Somalia, also known from Viet Nam, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Western Australia, between latitudes 21° N and 26° S, at depths of between 40 and 250 m. Its length is up to 48 cm.
The speckled catshark is a little-known but wide-ranging bottom-dwelling shark found on continental and insular shelves. Probably caught with bottom trawls.
Coloration is dark spots, small and very numerous, usually not larger than spiracles, over or between weak saddles or bars.
See also
References
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Halaelurus boesemani". FishBase. July 2006 version.
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