Velvet dogfish
| Velvet dogfish | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Division: | Selachii |
| Order: | Squaliformes |
| Family: | Somniosidae |
| Genus: | Zameus D. S. Jordan & Fowler, 1903 |
| Species: | Z. squamulosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Zameus squamulosus (Günther, 1877) | |
| Range of the velvet dogfish | |
| Synonyms | |
The velvet dogfish (Zameus squamulosus), the only member of the genus Zameus, is a small sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae, found around the world between latitudes 64°N and 48°S, from the surface to 2,000 m.