Apristurus gibbosus — The Life Data

Animalia/Chordata/Elasmobranchii/Carcharhiniformes/Scyliorhinidae/Apristurus

At a glance

Occurrence records5

Data sources7

Biological traits5

DNA specimens0

eDNA detections0

Sources7 archives

Databases and archives Apristurus gibbosus's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation6 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 records↗

OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System4 records↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗

Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗

On this page3 sections

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NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements1 literature sources5 traits

Occurrence & distributionGBIF · OBIS5 records

01Narrative

The humpback cat shark (Apristurus gibbosus) is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae in the order Carcharhiniformes, found in the northwest Pacific Ocean off Zhujiang, South China Sea, from the surface to 915 m. Its length is 39–41 cm. The largest specimen examined by Nakaya and Sato was 54.2 cm TL. The humpback catshark is a little-known oviparous deepwater catshark.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesFishBase

Size & morphology1

Body length388 cm

Habitat & environment2

Habitat saltwateryes

Habitat zonebathydemersal

Other traits2

Depth max913 m

Vulnerability90

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type5 records

Wild obs. + sensor1

Museum / vouchered4

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO12 km²

Depth

0–200 m sunlit0

200–1000 m twilight0

1–4 km midnight1

>4 km abyssal0

median 1 009 m · max 1 009 m · 1 record with depth

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy

no georeferenced coordinates · 1 records without

Open the mapobservation + sensor1

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy

no georeferenced coordinates · 4 records without

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence4

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Institution	Specimens
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record	1

1 institutions · 1 of 4 vouchered records shown