Azores dogfish
Scymnodalatias garricki Kukuev & Konovalenko, 1988
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Open encyclopedia reference
The Azores dogfish (Scymnodalatias garricki) is a very rare sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae. It is known only from the holotype caught north of the Azores and another caught in 2001.
The Azores dogfish lives in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean at depths of 300-2000m. Like most sharks, it is ovoviviparous.
Wikipedia contributors, Azores dogfish; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T04:09:45.754175+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Scymnodalatias garricki Kukuev & Konovalenko, 1988
- Name authority
- Kukuev & Konovalenko, 1988
- Common name
- Azores dogfish
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Elasmobranchii
- Order
- Squaliformes
- Family
- Somniosidae
- Genus
- Scymnodalatias
- Extinction status
- Not supplied by this source
Source habitat flags: Marine: yes · Freshwater: no · Terrestrial: no. These do not form a complete habitat description.
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumChondrichthyes
- classElasmobranchii
- subclassNeoselachii
- infraclassSelachii
- superorderSqualomorphi
- orderSqualiformes Compagno, 1973
- familySomniosidae Jordan, 1888
- genusScymnodalatias Garrick, 1956
- speciesScymnodalatias garricki Kukuev & Konovalenko, 1988
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Scymnodalatias. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Scymnodalatias albicauda Taniuchi & Garrick, 1986 | SomniosidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scymnodalatias sherwoodi (Archey, 1921) | SomniosidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- Kukuev, E. I., & Konovalenko, I. I. (1988). Two new species of sharks of the genus Scymnodalatias (Dalatiidae) from the North Atlantic and southeastern Pacific oceans. Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 28 (2): 315–319. [In Russian. English translation in Journal of Ichthyology 1988, v. 28 (1):122–126.]. Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:4W5CT. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.