title: Sherwood dogfish
text: # Sherwood dogfish
  
  The sherwood dogfish or Sherwood's dogfish (Scymnodalatias sherwoodi) is a very rare sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae, found only around New Zealand. The only specimen studied was about 80 cm long.
  
  The sherwood dogfish is ovoviviparous.
  
  ## Conservation status
  
  In June 2018 the New Zealand Department of Conservation classified the sherwood dogfish as "Not Threatened" with the qualifier "Secure Overseas" under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.
  
  