Mandarin dogfish

Mandarin dogfish
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Order:	Squaliformes
Family:	Squalidae
Genus:	Cirrhigaleus
Species:	C. barbifer
Binomial name
Cirrhigaleus barbifer S. Tanaka (I), 1912
Range of C. barbifer in dark blue and C. australis in light blue.

The mandarin dogfish, Cirrhigaleus barbifer, is a dogfish, a member of the family Squalidae in the order Squaliformes. It is found at depths of 140–650 metres (460–2,130 ft) off southern Japan, Taiwan, and Indonesia (Bali and Lombok). Populations off Australia and New Zealand were formerly included in this species, but in 2007 these were assigned to a new species, C. australis. It is not clear which of these species is involved in other populations from the tropical West Pacific.

In March 2013 it was announced that two sharks caught near Rottnest Island off the coast of Western Australia in 2011 had been identified as Cirrhigaleus barbifer.^[1][2]

References

1. "New Predator Enters Australian Waters". smh.com.au. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
2. Kempster, Ryan; Hunt, David; Human, Brett; Egeberg, Channing; Collin, Shaun (2013). "First record of the mandarin dogfish Cirrhigaleus barbifer (Chondrichthyes: Squalidae) from Western Australia". Marine Biodiversity Records. 6. doi:10.1017/S175526721300002X. Retrieved 1 March 2013.

Sources

• Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Cirrhigaleus barbifer" in FishBase. May 2006 version.
• White, W.T. (2007). "Cirrhigaleus barbifer". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 29 September 2011.