Broadmouth cat shark
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The Broadmouth catshark, Apristurus macrostomus, is a rare cat shark of the family
Scyliorhinidae, the holotype
and only specimen of which was taken from off Zhujiang in the South China Sea
at a depth of 913 m. Its length is 38 cm.
The Broadmouth catshark is oviparous.
Family (biology)
In 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. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Scyliorhinidae, the holotype
Holotype
A holotype is a single physical example of an organism, known to have been used when the species was formally described. It is either the single such physical example or one of several such, but explicitly designated as the holotype...
and only specimen of which was taken from off Zhujiang in the South China Sea
South China Sea
The South China Sea is a marginal sea that is part of the Pacific Ocean, encompassing an area from the Singapore and Malacca Straits to the Strait of Taiwan of around...
at a depth of 913 m. Its length is 38 cm.
The Broadmouth catshark is oviparous.