Endangered
Mosaic gulper shark
Centrophorus tessellatus
The mosaic gulper shark is a small rare deepwater dogfish, found in the Pacific Ocean around Honshū, Japan and the Hawaiian Islands at depths between 260 and 728 m.
Appearance
The mosaic gulper shark features a moderately long, parabolic snout with a width that is slightly greater than that of its mouth.
It has a maximum length of 89 cm (35 in).
Range and habitat
The mosaic gulper shark is a small rare deepwater dogfish, found in the Pacific Ocean around Honshū, Japan and the Hawaiian Islands at depths between 260 and 728 m. Being found at depths between 260 and 728 m, the mosaic gulper shark is rare enough that it has no significance to fisheries, contrary to others of the genus Cemtrophorus.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
The mosaic gulper shark gives birth to live young and produces liters of 1 to 2 pups.
In crisis
The mosaic gulper shark's conservation status is currently classified as endangered.
Mosaic gulper shark is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Mosaic gulper shark, Wikidata item Q511858. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
