The spotted smooth dogfish (Proscyllium venustum) is a finback catshark of the family Proscylliidae, found in the temperate northwest Pacific Ocean, in the Okinawa Trough. Little else is known about this harmless oviparous species.
| Proscyllium venustum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Carcharhiniformes |
| Family: | Proscylliidae |
| Genus: | Proscyllium |
| Species: | P. venustum
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| Binomial name | |
| Proscyllium venustum (S. Tanaka, 1912)
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References
edit- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Proscyllium venustum". FishBase. May 2006 version.
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