A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Somniosidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese dogfishCentroscymnus coelolepis Barbosa du Bocage & de Brito Capello, 1864 | SomniosidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scymnodalatias albicauda Taniuchi & Garrick, 1986 | SomniosidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Azores dogfishScymnodalatias garricki Kukuev & Konovalenko, 1988 | SomniosidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scymnodalatias sherwoodi (Archey, 1921) | SomniosidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scymnodon ichiharai Yano & Tanaka, 1984 | SomniosidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scymnodon macracanthus (Regan, 1906) | SomniosidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| knifetooth dogfishScymnodon ringens Barbosa du Bocage & de Brito Capello, 1864 | SomniosidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Somniosus antarcticus Whitley, 1939 | SomniosidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Somniosus longus (Tanaka, 1912) | SomniosidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Greenland sharkSomniosus microcephalus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) | SomniosidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pacific sleeper sharkSomniosus pacificus Bigelow & Schroeder, 1944 | SomniosidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| little sleeper sharkSomniosus rostratus (Risso, 1827) | SomniosidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Velvet dogfishZameus squamulosus (Günther, 1877) | SomniosidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.