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  Name Ghost catshark
  Status LC
  Regnum Animal ia
  Phylum Chordata
  Classis Chondrichthyes
  Ordo Carcharhiniformes
  Familia Scyliorhinidae
  Genus '' Apristurus ''
  Species '''''A manis'''''
  Binomial ''Apristurus manis''
  Binomial Authority (Springer, 1979)


The ghost catshark, ''Apristurus manis'', is a Cat Shark of the Family Scyliorhinidae found on the Continental Slope s in the northwest Atlantic from off Massachusetts , and the northeast Atlantic from the Porcupine Bank west of Ireland , at depths of between 600 and 1,900 m. Its length is up to 85 cm.

Reproduction is Oviparous .


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