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Somniosus Lesueur 1818

Description

Genus Somniosus Lesueur, 1818

Sleeper Sharks

Somniosus Lesueur, 1818: 222. Type species: Somniosus brevipinna, Lesueur, 1818 by monotypy; synonym of Somniosus microcephalus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801).

Notes

Published as part of Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 4947 (1) on page 32, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4614567

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Somniosidae
Genus
Somniosus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Squaliformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Lesueur
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Somniosus Lesueur, 1818 sec. Ebert, Wintner & Kyne, 2021

References

  • Lesueur, C. A. (1818) Description of several new species of North American fishes. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1, 222 - 235 + 359 - 368.
  • Bloch, M. E. & Schneider, J. G. (1801) Systema ichthyologiae iconibus ex illustratum. Vol. 2. Sumtibus auctoris impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano commissum, Berlin, 584 pp.