Abstract
A new deep water catshark species Apnstui us exsanguis, is described based on twenty‐nine specimens collected from the waters around New Zealand It has strong similarities with Apristurus sp B (Paulin et al , 1989) fiom New Zealand Apristurus sp A (Last & Stevens 1994) from Australia and Apristurus japonicus Nakaya, 1975, from Japan, but oan be separated from species ‘A and B by colouration, relative dorsal fin sizes and position, and spiral valve count, and from A japonicus by counts of spiral valves, tooth rows and monospondylus vertebrae
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