Izu catshark
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It looks like the cloudy catshark, but can be told apart by the fine white dots all over its body.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Izu catshark
- Scientific name
- Scyliorhinus tokubee
- Japanese name
- イズハナトラザメ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Chondrichthyes
- Order
- Carcharhiniformes
- Family
- Scyliorhinidae
- Genus
- Scyliorhinus
A small shark found in a few scattered places, such as the Izu Peninsula, the outer coast of Chiba and Taiwan.
It looks like the cloudy catshark, but can be told apart by the fine white dots all over its body.
Basic data
- Range
- Izu Peninsula, outer Boso in Chiba, Taiwan, and elsewhere
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- イズハナトラザメ
- 简体中文
- 白点猫鲨
- 繁體中文
- 白點貓鯊
- Italiano
- Gattuccio Izu
- العربية
- قرش إيزو القطي
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — イズハナトラザメChecked: 2026-11-04
- The Ichthyological Society of Japan — Scyliorhinus tokubee sp.nov. from Izu Peninsula, Southern Japan (Scyliorhinidae, Elasmobranchii)Checked: 2026-11-09
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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