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Portuguese Dogfish (Centroscymnus coelolepis) is one of the deepest-living sharks known, recorded at depths exceeding 3,600 m in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Prickly Dogfish (Oxynotus bruniensis) is a rare, hump-backed deep-sea shark of the southwestern Pacific recognized by its exceptionally coarse, thorn-like dermal denticles.
Gulper Shark (Centrophorus granulosus) is a vulnerable deep-water shark heavily exploited for its squalene-rich liver oil used in cosmetics, found in the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific.
Leafscale Gulper Shark (Centrophorus squamosus) is a deep-water shark named for its distinctive leaf-shaped dermal denticles, listed as vulnerable due to slow reproduction and fishing pressure.
Birdbeak Dogfish (Deania calcea) is a deep-water shark of family Centrophoridae named for its distinctively long, flattened, rostrum-like snout, distributed across the Atlantic and Pacific.
Zameus squamulosus (Somniosidae), a cosmopolitan deep-sea squaliform shark recorded at 200–2,000 m worldwide, named for its distinctively dense, velvety skin texture.
Roughskin Dogfish (Cirrhigaleus asper) is a deep-water squalid shark named for its coarser-than-average skin denticles, recorded in scattered locations across the Atlantic and Pacific.
Centrophorus moluccensis, a gulper shark of the Indo-Pacific found at 125–820 m, distinguished from close relatives by comparatively small, narrow pectoral fins.
