text: Apristurus aphyodes Nakaya & Stehmann, 1998 (white ghost catshark)
  Apristurus australis K. Sato, Nakaya & Yorozu, 2008 (Pinocchio catshark)
  Apristurus breviventralis Kawauchi, Weigmann & Nakaya, 2014 (short-belly catshark)
  Apristurus brunneus (C. H. Gilbert, 1892) (brown catshark)
  Apristurus bucephalus W. T. White, Last & Pogonoski, 2008 (big-head catshark)
  Apristurus canutus S. Springer & Heemstra, 1979 (hoary catshark)
  Apristurus exsanguis K. Sato, Nakaya & A. L. Stewart, 1999 (flaccid catshark)
  Apristurus fedorovi Dolganov, 1985 (Fedorov's catshark)
  Apristurus garricki K. Sato, A. L. Stewart & Nakaya, 2013 (Garrick's catshark)
  Apristurus gibbosus Q. W. Meng, Y. T. Chu & S. Li, 1985  (humpback catshark)
  Apristurus herklotsi (Fowler, 1934) (long-fin catshark)
  Apristurus indicus (A. B. Brauer, 1906) (small-belly catshark)
  Apristurus internatus S. M. Deng, G. Q. Xiong & H. X. Zhan, 1988  (short-nose demon catshark)
  Apristurus investigatoris (Misra, 1962) (broad-nose catshark)
  Apristurus japonicus Nakaya, 1975 (Japanese catshark)
  Apristurus kampae L. R. Taylor, 1972 (long-nose catshark)
  Apristurus laurussonii (Sæmundsson, 1922) (Iceland catshark)
  Apristurus longicephalus Nakaya, 1975 (long-head catshark)
  Apristurus macrorhynchus (S. Tanaka (I)], 1909) (flat-head catshark)
  Apristurus macrostomus Q. W. Meng, Y. T. Chu & S. Li, 1985 (broad-mouth catshark)
  Apristurus manis (S. Springer, 1979) (Ghost catshark)
  Apristurus melanoasper Iglésias, Nakaya & Stehmann, 2004 (black rough-scale catshark)