Japanese velvet dogfish

{{Short description|Species of shark}}

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| name = Scymnodon ichiharai

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| status = VU

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Rigby, C.L. |author2=Walls, R.H.L. |author3=Derrick, D. |author4=Dyldin, Y.V. |author5=Herman, K. |author6=Ishihara, H. |author7=Jeong, C.-H. |author8=Semba, Y. |author9=Tanaka, S. |author10=Volvenko, I.V. |author11=Yamaguchi, A. |date=2021 |title=Scymnodon ichiharai |volume=2021 |page=e.T161363A124472202 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T161363A124472202.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}

| genus = Scymnodon

| species = ichiharai

| authority = Ka. Yano & S. Tanaka (II), 1984

| range_map = Zameus ichiharai distmap.png

| range_map_caption = Range of the Japanese velvet dogfish

| synonyms = Zameus ichiharai Yano & Tanaka, 1984

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The Japanese velvet dogfish (Scymnodon ichiharai) is a harmless deepwater sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae, found in the northwest Pacific from Suruga Bay and adjacent waters of Japan at depths of between {{convert|500|and|800|m|ft}}.White, W.T., Vaz, D.F.B., Ho, H.-C., Ebert, D.A., Carvalho, M.R.d., Corrigan, S., Rochel, E., Carvalho, M.d., Tanaka, S. & Naylor, G.J.P. (2014): Redescription of Scymnodon ichiharai Yano and Tanaka 1984 (Squaliformes: Somniosidae) from the western North Pacific, with comments on the definition of somniosid genera. Ichthyological Research, 62 (2): 213-229. Reproduction is ovoviviparous.