The original description of the cloudy catshark was published in 1908 by Shigeho Tanaka in the Journal of the Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo. He gave it the specific epithet torazame, which is its Japanese n… See more

The cloudy catshark reaches 50 cm (20 in) long and has a thin, deep, and firm body. The narrow head makes up slightly under one-sixth of the total length, and is two-thirds as wide as it is long. The snout is short and r… See more

The cloudy catshark is common in the northwestern Pacific off Japan, Korea, China, and possibly the Philippines. Bottom-dwelling in nature, this species can be found from the shore out to a depth of 320 m (1,050 ft) o… See more

The cloudy catshark feeds primarily on molluscs, followed by crustaceans and bony fishes. A predator of both this shark and its egg cases is the blotchy swell shark (Cephaloscyllium umbratile). A known parasite of … See more