Sherwood dogfish

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{{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2024}}

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| name = Sherwood dogfish

| image = Scymnodalatias sherwoodi (Sherwood dogfish).gif

| image_caption = Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling

| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref={{cite iucn |author=Finucci, B. |author2=Kyne, P.M. |date=2018 |title=Scymnodalatias sherwoodi |volume=2018 |page=e.T41856A70709963 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T41856A70709963.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}

| genus = Scymnodalatias

| species = sherwoodi

| authority = (Archey, 1921)

| range_map = Scymnodalatias sherwoodi distmap.png

| range_map_caption = Range of the Sherwood dogfish (in blue)

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The sherwood dogfish or Sherwood's dogfish (Scymnodalatias sherwoodi) is a very rare sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae, found only around New Zealand.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nzor.org.nz/names/23038d9c-2cf6-46ea-8c70-ca65af72e041|title=Scymnodalatias sherwoodi (Archey, 1921)|website=NZOR|publisher=Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research|access-date=21 January 2019}} The only specimen studied was about 80 cm long.

The sherwood dogfish is ovoviviparous.{{Cite web|url=http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Scymnodalatias-sherwoodi.html|title=Scymnodalatias sherwoodi (Archey, 1921) Sherwood dogfish|last=Carpenter|first=Kent E.|last2=Bailly|first2=Nicolas|website=Fishbase|access-date=23 January 2019}}