Taiwan sleeper shark
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| Taiwan sleeper shark | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Division: | Selachii |
| Order: | Squaliformes |
| Family: | Somniosidae |
| Genus: | Somniosus |
| Species: | S. cheni
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| Binomial name | |
| Somniosus cheni Hsu, Lin, & Joung, 2020[2]
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The Taiwan sleeper shark (Somniosus cheni) is a small sleeper shark from the western North Pacific Ocean around Taiwan. It is only known from a single adult specimen, a 1.34 m (4.4 ft) pregnant female with 33 embryos, which was caught in 2017.[2][3]
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