Flatnose cat shark
Encyclopedia
The flatnose cat shark, Apristurus acanutus, is a cat shark of the family
Scyliorhinidae found in the northwest Pacific Ocean
off Zhujiang, South China Sea
. This species is now considered a junior synonym of A. platyrhynchus.
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Scyliorhinidae found in the northwest Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.At 165.2 million square kilometres in area, this largest division of the World...
off Zhujiang, South China Sea
South China Sea
The South China Sea is a marginal sea that is part of the Pacific Ocean, encompassing an area from the Singapore and Malacca Straits to the Strait of Taiwan of around...
. This species is now considered a junior synonym of A. platyrhynchus.