Scientific Name	Dalatias licha   Pronounce			by: Lab of Fish Ecol. and Evo., BRCAS
Author	(Bonnaterre, 1788)	Depth	37 - 1800M
Chinese	鎧鯊	Poisonous Fish	No
Family_Chinese	鎧鯊科	Economic Fish	Yes
Family	F039　Dalatiidae	Edible Fish	Yes	Chinese In Mainland China	鎧鯊
Max Length	182 cm	Aquarium Fish	No	Common Name	黑鮫、黑沙、沙魚(臺東)
Distribution in World	global	Distribution in Taiwan	South、North East
Habitats	Deep Sea、Benthos、Coastal	Holotype Locality	[Le Cap Breton] Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada, western North Atlantic
Synonyms	Dalatias lica, Dalatias lichia, Dalatias sparophagus, Dalatias tachiensis, Pseudoscymnus boshuensis, Scymnorhinus brevipinnis, Scymnorhinus licha, Scymnorhinus phillippsi, Scymnus aquitanensis, Scymnus vulgaris, Squalus americanus, Squalus licha, Squalus nicaeensis ...all 14..
Reference	臺灣魚類誌(沈等, 1993)；李柏峰（2003）碩士論文；中國動物誌-圓口綱及軟骨魚綱(朱等, 2001)；FAO Species Catalogue, Vol.4 Sharks of the world  Compagno, L.J.V. 1984 沈世傑 編 Shih-Chieh Shen ed. 1993 Last, P.R. etc. 1994 朱元鼎, 孟慶聞 等編 2001 李柏鋒 2003
Specimen List	ASIZP0058674. ASIZP0060559. ASIZP0062455. ASIZP0063278. ASIZP0064621. ASIZP0080485. ASIZP0807663. ASIZP0917663. FRIP00340. FRIP21619. NMMSTP00821. NTMP1336. NTUM00744. NTUM01326. NTUM01628. NTUM06684. NTUM06969.
Common Name	Seal shark; Black shark; Darkie charlie; Kitefin shark; Kitefin shark
Redlist Status	IUCN Redlist: Lower Risk/near threatened(LR/nt)  2000-06-30
Characteristic	A moderate-sized, short-and blunt-snouted shark. Anterior nasal flaps short; snout broadly conical, rounded, and short; gill openings moderately broad and about equally wide; lips very thick, fringed or pleated, not suctorial; teeth very different in upper and lower jaws, uppers small, with narrow, hooked, needle-shaped cusps and no cusplets, lowers very large, bladelike, interlocked, with broad, erect, triangular cusps, small distal blades, and serrated edges; tooth rows 16 to 21/17 to 20. Two almost equal-sized spineless dorsal fins; first dorsal origin somewhat behind free rear tips of pectoral fins, first dorsal insertion well anterior to pelvic origins, closer to pectoral bases than pelvics; second dorsal origin about over middle of pelvic bases; pectoral fins with short, broadly rounded free rear tips, not broadly lobate or acute and elongated; caudal fin asymmetrical, not paddle-shaped, upper lobe long, lower lobe very short or virtually absent, subterminal notch well-developed. No anal fin. No precaudal pits or lateral keels on caudal peduncle. Dermal denticles with low flat, ridged, unicuspid crowns, not pedicellate. Cloaca without a luminous gland. Colour greyish to black orblackish brown, sometimes violet with black spots.
habitats	Maximum to at least 159 cm, possibly to 182 cm, males adult between 77 to 121 cm, females between 117 to 159 cm, size at birth about 30 cm. A common but sporadically distributed deepwater, warm-temperate and tropical shark of the outer continental and ins
Distribution	South and Northeast off Taiwan; Western North Atlantic; Eastern Atlantic; Western Mediterranean; Western Indian Ocean; Western Pacific; Central Pacific.
Utility	Caught for its squalene-rich liver, leather andmeat, also for fishmeal.