Species: Pseudotriakis microdon, False Cat Shark

Pseudotriakis microdon Capello, 1868

False Cat Shark

Head, body and fins soft and flabby; head narrow & rounded; snout elongate, rounded, bell-shaped; a deep groove before elongated, slit-like eyes; spiracles very large; front nasal flaps broadly angular; mouth long, angular, arched, extends past eyes; lip furrows very short; teeth small, with acute narrow points & 1 pair of side cusplets, not bladelike, similar in both jaws, rear teeth comblike; many tooth rows (upper 96 - 294, lower 108 – 335); pectoral fins rounded; 1st dorsal fin long and low, spans most of distance between pectorals and pelvics; no pits on tail origin; tail fin with ventral lobe weak to absent; no undulations on upper edge of tail fin.

Uniform dark brown to black

Reaches 2.96 m

On the bottom of deep water, around reefs.

Depth range 100-1890 m.

Scattered locations worldwide, except the East Pacific; Nova Scotia to Brazil; the Bahamas.