Centrophorus moluccensis, Smallfin gulper shark Description
Centrophorus moluccensis
Date 1911
Source Zoological results of the fishing experiments carried out by F.I.S. "Endeavor" 1909-10 under H.C. Dannevig http://www.archive.org/details/fisherieszoologi03aust
Author A. R. Mc Culloch
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Centrophorus_moluccensis.jpg
The smallfin gulper shark, Centrophorus moluccensis, is a medium-sized deepwater dogfish in the Centrophoridae family. The smallfin gulper is found in the western Indian Ocean off South Africa and Mozambique, and the western Pacific off Honshū, Japan, Indonesia, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, and southern Australia. Order: Squaliformes, Family: Centrophoridae, Genus: Centrophorus, Species: Centrophorus moluccensis (Bleeker, 1860).