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Scyliorhinidae, commonly known as the ghost or demon catsharks.

Species

The 39 currently recognized species in this genus are: * '' Apristurus albisoma'' Nakaya & Séret, 1999 (white-bodied catshark) * ''

Apristurus ampliceps The roughskin catshark (''Apristurus ampliceps'') is a species of catshark in the family Scyliorhinidae found near Australia and New Zealand. Its natural habitat is the open seas. This species belongs to a genus of poorly known deep-water catsha ...

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, Sato & Nakaya, 2008 (roughskin catshark) * '' Apristurus aphyodes'' Nakaya & Stehmann, 1998 (white ghost catshark) * '' Apristurus australis'' Sato Nakaya & Yorozu, 2008 (Pinocchio catshark) * '' Apristurus breviventralis'' Kawauchi, Weigmann & Nakaya, 2014 (shortbelly catshark) * '' Apristurus brunneus'' C. H. Gilbert, 1892 (brown catshark) * ''

Apristurus bucephalus The bighead catshark (''Apristurus bucephalus'') is a species of fish in the family Catshark, Scyliorhinidae Endemism, endemic to Australia. Its natural habitat is the open seas. It belongs to a genus (biology), genus of poorly known deep-water c ...

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& Pogonoski, 2008 (bighead catshark) * ''

Apristurus canutus The hoary catshark (''Apristurus canutus'') is a catshark of the family Scyliorhinidae found in the western central Atlantic in the Caribbean, at depths between . Its length is up to . The reproduction of this catshark is oviparous. Reference ...

'' S. Springer & Heemstra, 1979 (hoary catshark) * '' Apristurus exsanguis'' Sato, Nakaya & A. L. Stewart, 1999 (flaccid catshark) * '' Apristurus fedorovi'' Dolganov, 1985 (Fedorov's catshark) * '' Apristurus garricki'' Sato, Stewart & Nakaya, 2013 (Garrick's catshark) Sato, K., Stewart, A.L. & Nakaya, K. (2013): ''Apristurus garricki'' sp. nov., a new deep-water catshark from the northern New Zealand waters (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae). ''Marine Biology Research, 9 (8): 758-767.'' * ''

Apristurus gibbosus The humpback cat shark (''Apristurus gibbosus'') is a cat shark of the family (biology), family Catshark, Scyliorhinidae in the order Carcharhiniformes, found in the northwest Pacific Ocean off Zhujiang, South China Sea, from the surface to 915 m ...

'' Y. T. Chu, Q. W. Meng & S. Li, 1985 (humpback catshark) * '' Apristurus herklotsi'' Fowler, 1934 (longfin catshark) * '' Apristurus indicus'' A. B. Brauer, 1906 (smallbelly catshark) * '' Apristurus internatus'' S. M. Deng, G. Q. Xiong & H. X. Zhan, 1988 (shortnose demon catshark) * '' Apristurus investigatoris''

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, 1962 (broadnose catshark) * '' Apristurus japonicus'' Nakaya, 1975 (Japanese catshark) * '' Apristurus kampae'' L. R. Taylor, 1972 (longnose catshark) * '' Apristurus laurussonii'' Sæmundsson, 1922 (Iceland catshark) * ''

Apristurus longicephalus The longhead catshark or smoothbelly catshark (''Apristurus longicephalus'') is a species of catshark, family Scyliorhinidae, with a patchy distribution in the Indo-Pacific from Mozambique to southern Japan to northern Australia. It is found i ...

'' Nakaya, 1975 (longhead catshark) * '' Apristurus macrorhynchus'' S. Tanaka (I), 1909 (flathead catshark) * ''

Apristurus macrostomus The broadmouth catshark (''Apristurus macrostomus'') is a rare catshark 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 around 38 cm ...

'' Q. W. Meng, Y. T. Chu & S. Li, 1985 (broadmouth catshark) * ''

Apristurus manis The ghost catshark (''Apristurus manis'') is a catshark of the family (biology), family Scyliorhinidae found on the continental slopes in the northwest Atlantic off Massachusetts, the northeast Atlantic from the Porcupine Bank west of Ireland and ...

'' S. Springer, 1979 (ghost catshark) *''

Apristurus manocheriani ''Apristurus manocheriani'', also known by its common name Manocherian's catshark, is a species from the genus ''Apristurus''. This species was originally described by Justin A. Cordova and David A. Ebert in 2021. Etymology The cat shark is name ...

'' Cordova & Ebert 2021, (Manocherian's Catshark) * '' Apristurus melanoasper'' Iglésias, Nakaya & Stehmann, 2004 (black roughscale catshark) * '' Apristurus microps'' Gilchrist, 1922 (smalleye catshark) * '' Apristurus micropterygeus'' Q. W. Meng, Y. T. Chu & S. Li, 1986 (smalldorsal catshark) * '' Apristurus nakayai'' Iglésias, 2013 (milk-eye catshark) Iglésias, S.P. (2013): ''Apristurus nakayai'' sp. nov., a new species of deepwater catshark (Chondrichthyes: Pentanchidae) from New Caledonia. ''Cybium'', 36 (4): 511-519. * '' Apristurus nasutus'' F. de Buen, 1959 (largenose catshark) * '' Apristurus parvipinnis'' S. Springer, 1979 & Heemstra, 1979 (smallfin catshark) * '' Apristurus pinguis'' S. M. Deng, G. Q. Xiong & H. X. Zhan, 1983 (bulldog catshark) * ''

Apristurus platyrhynchus The spatulasnout catshark (''Apristurus platyrhynchus''), also known as the Borneo catshark or flatnose catshark, is a catshark of the family Scyliorhinidae, found in the western Pacific The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest o ...

'' S. Tanaka (I), 1909 (spatulasnout catshark or Borneo catshark) * '' Apristurus profundorum'' Goode & T. H. Bean, 1896 (deepwater catshark) * '' Apristurus riveri'' Bigelow &

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, 1944 (broadgill catshark) * ''

Apristurus saldanha The Saldanha catshark (''Apristurus saldanha'') is a species of catshark, belonging to the family Scyliorhinidae. This catshark is found from Cape Columbine to south of False Bay in South Africa, between 31 and 40°S. Its length is up to 88 c ...

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, 1925 (Saldanha catshark) *†'' Apristurus sereti'' ADNET, 2006 * '' Apristurus sibogae'' M. C. W. Weber, 1913 (pale catshark) * '' Apristurus sinensis'' Y. T. Chu & A. S. Hu, 1981 (South China catshark) * '' Apristurus spongiceps'' C. H. Gilbert, 1905 (spongehead catshark) * '' Apristurus stenseni'' S. Springer, 1979, 1979 (Panama ghost catshark) * ''Apristurus ''sp. X Not yet described (Galbraith's catshark) * ''Apristurus'' sp. 3 Not yet described (black wonder catshark) * ''Apristurus ''sp.'' nov.'' Not yet described (white-edged catshark) * ''Apristurus'' sp. Not yet described (gray ghost catshark)

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q1707527 Shark genera Taxa named by Samuel Garman