Centrophorus squamosus
Description
Centrophorus squamosus (Bonnaterre, 1788)
Leafscale Gulper Shark
Squalus squamosus Bonnaterre, 1788: 12. Holotype: MNHN A-7829 (head only). Type locality: no locality stated (probably eastern North Atlantic).
Local synonymy: Centroscymnus fuscus: Gilchrist & von Bonde, 1924: 2 (original description, off St. Helena Bay, 32°S, l 6°E, west coast of South Africa, holotype lost); Barnard, 1925: 51; Smith 1949a: 58; Smith, 1965: 58. Lepidorhinus squamosus: Smith, 1967b: 119; Penrith, 1969: 64. Encheiridiodon hendersoni Smith, 1967b: 129, pls. 24–27 (original description,Algoa Bay, South Africa, holotype SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 663). Centrophorus squamosus: Hulley, 1971: 265, fig. 1; Bass et al., 1976: 28, fig. 19; Compagno, 1984a: 43, fig.; Bass et al., 1986: 51, fig. 5.4; Compagno et al., 1989: 24, pl.; Compagno et al., 1991: 55; Ebert et al., 1992: 602; Compagno, 1999: 114; Compagno et al., 2005: 86, fig., pl. 4; Ebert, 2013: 68, fig. 77; Ebert et al., 2013 a: 105, fig., pl. 6; Ebert & Mostarda, 2013: 27, fig.; Ebert, 2015: 64, fig. 68; Ebert & Mostarda, 2015: 21, fig.; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 144; Compagno, 2016: 1173; Weigmann, 2016: 890.
South Africa voucher material: SAIAB 663 [Holotype: Encheiridiodon hendersoni]. SAIAB 26282, SAIAB 99355, SAIAB 99356, SAIAB 99357, SAIAB 99358, SAIAB 99359, SAIAB 99361, SAIAB 99362, SAIAB 99363, SAIAB 99364, SAM 24029, SAM 17161.
South Africa distribution: The Orange River (NC) to the northern KZN border with Mozambique.
Remarks: Smith (1967b), based on a dead specimen collected by the spearfisher in 3–4 m depth, described a new genus and species of gulper shark Encheiridiodon hendersoni, but the specimen is actually a C. squamosus. Hulley (1971) tentatively synonymized Centroscymnus fuscus with this species, but details of its original description suggest it may have been C. coelolepis. Unfortunately, the holotype of C. fuscus is lost.
Conservation status: EN (2020).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- SAIAB , SAM
- Family
- Centrophoridae
- Genus
- Centrophorus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- SAIAB 26282, SAIAB 99355, SAIAB 99356, SAIAB 99357, SAIAB 99358, SAIAB 99359, SAIAB 99361, SAIAB 99362, SAIAB 99363, SAIAB 99364 , SAIAB 663
- Order
- Squaliformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Bonnaterre
- Species
- squamosus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Centrophorus squamosus (Bonnaterre, 1788) sec. Ebert, Wintner & Kyne, 2021
References
- Bonnaterre, J. P. (1788) Tableau encyclopedique et methodique des trois regnes de la nature. Ichthyologie, Paris, 215 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 11660
- Gilchrist, J. D. F. & von Bonde, C. (1924) Deep-sea fishes procured by the S. S. " Pickle " (Part II). Report Fisheries and Marine Biological Survey, Union of South Africa, 3 (7), 1 - 24. [1922]
- Barnard, K. H. (1925) A monograph of the marine fishes of South Africa. Part I (Amphioxus, Cyclostomata, Elasmobranchii, and Teleostei-Isospondyli to Heterosomata). Annals of the South African Museum, 21, 1 - 418.
- Smith, J. L. B. (1949 a) The Sea Fishes of Southern Africa. South Africa Central News Agency Ltd., 550 pp.
- Smith, J. L. B. (1965) The Sea Fishes of Southern Africa. 5 th Edition. Central News Agency Ltd., 580 pp.
- Smith, J. L. B. (1967 b) A new squalid shark from South Africa with notes on the rare Atractophorus armatus Gilchrist. Occasional Papers of the Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, 11, 117 - 136.
- Penrith, M. J. (1969) New records of deep-water fishes from South West Africa. Cimbebasia, Series A, 1 (3), 59 - 75.
- Hulley, P. A. (1971) Centrophorus squamosus (Bonnaterre) (Chondrichthyes, Squalidae) in the eastern south Atlantic. Annals of the South African Museum, 57 (11), 265 - 270.
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