[PO Scans - Aquatic Life] Nursehound (Scyliorhinus stellaris)

Query: Scyliorhinidae

Result: 19^th of 20

Subject:	[PO Scans - Aquatic Life] Nursehound (Scyliorhinus stellaris)

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Nursehound (Scyliorhinus stellaris)

The nursehound, greater spotted dogfish or bull huss, Scyliorhinus stellaris, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found from the northeast Atlantic from the Shetlands, southern Scandinavia and the British Isles to Morocco, including the Mediterranean between latitudes 64° N and 12° N, at depths down to 400 m. Its length is up to 1.7 m. Sightings further south to the Congo River mouth may be the West African catshark, Scyliorhinus cervigoni.

Scyliorhinidae
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