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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classElasmobranchii
  4. ›orderCarcharhiniformes
  5. ›familyScyliorhinidae
  6. ›genusGaleus
Galeus longirostris
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Longnose Sawtail Catshark

Galeus longirostris Tachikawa & Taniuchi, 1987

Also calledGattuccio nasolungo (ita) · Hashinaga-yamorizame (jpn) · Hashinagayamorizame (jpn) · Langnasen-Sägeschwanz-Katzenhai (deu) · Langsnuitzaagstaartkathaai (nld) · máčka amamská (ces) · ハシナガヤモリザメ (jpn)

First described in: Tachikawa, Hiroyuki & Toru Taniuchi. 1987. Galeus longirostris, a new species of the sawtail catshark from Japan. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology 33(4): 352-359.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5215606.