Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico Love, Milton S. Bizzarro, Joseph J. Cornthwaite, Maria Frable, Benjamin W. Maslenikov, Katherine P. Zootaxa 2021 2021-10-19 5053 1 1 285 5CVNV (Gunther, 1877) Gunther 1877 [151,587,330,357] Elasmobranchii Somniosidae Zameus Animalia Squaliformes 21 22 Chordata species squamulosus   Velvet Dogfish.To 115 cm( 45.3 in) TL ( Santos et al.2020). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Kuril Islands ( Ebert et al.2013); one record from southern California ( 33°43’N, 118°32’W) (Daniel Kamikawa, pers. comm. to M.L.); Peruand Chile( Ebert 2016). Depth: surface to 1,511 m( 4,956 ft) (min.: Compagno in Carpenter and De Angelis 2016; max.: Weigman 2016), perhaps to about 2,000 m( 6,560 ft), but without documentation ( Roberts et al.2015).