Animal Diversity Web

Centrophorus squamosus

Deepsea spiny dogfish

(Also: Deepwater spiny dogfish; Leaf-scale gulper shark; Nilsons deepsea dogfish)

Kingdom Animalia (animals)
- Eumetazoa (metazoans)
  - Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
    - Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
      - Phylum Chordata (chordates)
        
        Craniata (craniates)
        
        Subphylum Vertebrata (vertebrates)
        
        Superclass Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates)
        
        Class Chondrichthyes (rays, sharks, and relatives)
        
        Elasmobranchii
        
        Order Squaliformes
        
        Family Centrophoridae (Gulper sharks)
        
        Genus Centrophorus
        
        Species Centrophorus squamosus (Deepsea spiny dogfish)