sentences:  Growing to long, this shark has a slim gray body with four dark saddle markings below the dorsal fins and on the caudal fin, as well as a prominent crest of enlarged dermal denticles along the dorsal edge of the caudal fin.The slender sawtail catshark is not valued by fisheries but is taken as bycatch.The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) presently lacks enough information to assess its conservation status.