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Genus of sharks

Scymnodon

Scymnodon plunketi

Scymnodon obscurus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Order:	Squaliformes
Family:	Somniosidae
Genus:	Scymnodon Barbosa du Bocage & Brito Capello, 1864
Synonyms
Proscymnodon Barbosa du Bocage & Brito Capello, 1864

Scymnodon is a genus of squaliform sharks in the family Somniosidae.

Species

There are currently four recognized species in this genus:

Scymnodon ichiharai Ka. Yano & S. Tanaka (II), 1984 (Japanese velvet dogfish)
Scymnodon macracanthus (Regan, 1906) (largespine velvet dogfish)
Scymnodon plunketi (Waite, 1910) (Plunket's shark)
Scymnodon ringens Barbosa du Bocage & Brito Capello, 1864 (knifetooth dogfish)

References

^ White, W.T., Vaz, D.F.B., Ho, H.-C., Ebert, D.A., Carvalho, M.R.d., Corrigan, S., Rochel, E., Carvalho, M.d., Tanaka, S. & Naylor, G.J.P. (2014): Redescription of Scymnodon ichiharai Yano and Tanaka 1984 (Squaliformes: Somniosidae) from the western North Pacific, with comments on the definition of somniosid genera. Ichthyological Research, 62 (2): 213-229.

Taxon identifiers
Scymnodon	Wikidata: Q1635256 ADW: Scymnodon BOLD: 179881 CoL: 63SZ7 EoL: 46560306 GBIF: 2421173 iNaturalist: 91974 IRMNG: 1365231 ITIS: 160753 NBN: NBNSYS0000186967 NCBI: 862901 NZOR: 5a3e789c-bd11-40ff-a12e-fcd702e1914a Open Tree of Life: 956139 Paleobiology Database: 34557 WoRMS: 105778

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