Deania is a
genusIn biology, a genus is a taxonomic unit used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The term comes from Latin genus "descent, family, type, gender" , cognate with – genos, "race, stock, kin" ..In addition, genus is a taxonomic rank in the hierarchy In biology, a genus (plural:...
of long-snouted, deepwater
dogfishDogfish can have many meanings, but usually refers to a type of shark:* A shark belonging to the order Squaliformes, or to one of its constituent families:* Family Centrophoridae * Family Dalatiidae...
sharks in the
familyIn biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus...
CentrophoridaeThe gulper sharks are a family of squaliform sharks. The family contains just two genera and approximately 15 species....
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Deania is a
genusIn biology, a genus is a taxonomic unit used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The term comes from Latin genus "descent, family, type, gender" , cognate with – genos, "race, stock, kin" ..In addition, genus is a taxonomic rank in the hierarchy In biology, a genus (plural:...
of long-snouted, deepwater
dogfishDogfish can have many meanings, but usually refers to a type of shark:* A shark belonging to the order Squaliformes, or to one of its constituent families:* Family Centrophoridae * Family Dalatiidae...
sharks in the
familyIn biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus...
CentrophoridaeThe gulper sharks are a family of squaliform sharks. The family contains just two genera and approximately 15 species....
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Species
- Birdbeak dogfish
The birdbeak dogfish, Deania calcea, is a dogfish shark of the family Deania found in the Pacific Ocean around Honshū, Japan, Southern Australia, New Zealand, and Chile, and in the Atlantic Ocean from Iceland south to the Cape of Good Hope....
, Deania calcea (Lowe, 1839)
- Rough longnose dogfish
The rough longnose shark, Deania hystricosa, is a little-known deepwater dogfish.Rough longnose dogfish have an extremely long snout, no anal fin, small grooved dorsal spines, and rough pitchfork-shaped dermal denticles. The first dorsal fin is long and narrow. Maximum length is 109 cm.Found in the...
, Deania hystricosa (Garman, 1906)
- Arrowhead dogfish
The arrowhead dogfish, Deania profundorum, is a small little known deepwater dogfish of the family Centrophoridae.-Physical characteristics:...
, Deania profundorum (Smith & Radcliffe, 1912)
- Longsnout dogfish
The longsnout dogfish Deania quadrispinosum is a little known deepwater dogfish, found in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans from Namibia to Mozambique and in the south Pacific off southern Australia....
, Deania quadrispinosum (McCulloch, 1915)