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Japanese Angel Shark
Squatina japonica Bleeker, 1858

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Chondrichthyes - cartilaginous fishes »  order Squatiniformes - angel sharks »  family Squatinidae - angel sharks »  genus Squatina

Other names

= Change Angel Shark
= Change Canopy Shark
= Japanese Angelfish

Images

Squatina japonica - Japanese Angel Shark

Author: Jo Kuyken

Squatina japonica - Japanese Angel Shark

Author: B. Kao

Squatina japonica - Japanese Angel Shark

Author: B. Kao

Links and literature

CH DE EN FR IT NL PR SP FishBase [733]

Froese R., Pauly D. (eds.): FishBase [http://www.fishbase.org]
CZ AQUATAB. World Wide Web electronic publication 2025 [species/25651]

Plíštil J. (Ed.) (2001-2025): AQUATAB. World Wide Web electronic publication [http://aquatab.net] [as Squatina japonica Bleeker, 1858]
Data retrieved on: 25 March 2025
EN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024-1 [161558]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Squatina japonica Bleeker, 1858]
Data retrieved on: 29 January 2024
CZ Hanel L., Novák J. (2001): České názvy živočichů V. Ryby a rybovití obratlovci (Pisces), 1. Sliznatky (Myxini), mihule (Cephalaspidomorphi), paryby (Chondrichthyes), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 53 pp. [as Squatina japonica Bleeker, 1858]
Data retrieved on: 2 June 2013
EN Dyldin Y. V. (2015): Annotated checklist of the sharks, batoids and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii, Holocephali) from waters of Russia and adjacent areas, Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory, 43: 40-91 [as Squatina japonica Bleeker, 1858]
Data retrieved on: 19 November 2015

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