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Galeus melastomus Rafinesque 1810
Description
* □ Galeus melastomus Rafinesque, 1810
– Blackmouth catshark; Leitão ①③, ②
The presence of this species off the Azores needs further evaluation (Santos et al. 1997). According to Ebert & Stehmann (2013), the occurrence of G. melastomus off the Azores is possible.
Notes
Published as part of Carneiro, Miguel, Martins, Rogélia, Landi, Monica & Costa, Filipe O., 2014, Updated checklist of marine fishes (Chordata: Craniata) from Portugal and the proposed extension of the Portuguese continental shelf, pp. 1-73 in European Journal of Taxonomy 73 on page 11, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2014.73, http://zenodo.org/record/3866515
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Scyliorhinidae
- Genus
- Galeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Carcharhiniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Rafinesque
- Species
- melastomus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Galeus melastomus Rafinesque, 1810 sec. Carneiro, Martins, Landi & Costa, 2014
References
- Santos R. S., Porteiro F. M. & Barreiros J. P. 1997. Marine fishes of the Azores: annotated checklist and bibliography. Arquipelago - Life and Marine Sciences. Suppl. 1: 1 - 244.
- Ebert D. A. & Stehmann M. F. W. 2013. Sharks, batoids, and chimaeras of the North Atlantic. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes no. 7, Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome.