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Squalus suckleyi
Description
Squalus suckleyi (Girard, 1855).
Pacific Spiny Dogfish. To at least 140 cm (55.1 in) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2018); possibly to 160 cm (63 in) TL (Eschmeyer & Herald 1983). Koreas northward to Russia to Bering Sea and south-eastern Chukchi Sea (near Kotzebue), Alaska to southern Baja California (Ebert et al. 2010). Coastal, inshore and offshore; depth: intertidal and from surface to 1,460 (4,789 ft) (min.: Ebert et al. 2013; max.: Allen and Robertson 2015). Authors have previously reported the date of publication of the species description as 1854, however while the paper was presented in November 1854, the proceedings were published in 1855 (Mecklenburg et al. 2016). Formerly Squalus acanthias Linnaeus, 1758.
Notes
Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Squalidae
- Genus
- Squalus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Squaliformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Girard
- Species
- suckleyi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Squalus suckleyi (Girard, 1855) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Mecklenburg, C. W., Lynghammar, A., Johannesen, E., Byrkjedal, I., Christiansen, J. S., Dolgov, A. V., Karamushko, O. V., Mecklenburg, T. A., Moller, P. R., Steinke, D. & Wienerrolther, R. M. (2018) Marine Fishes of the Arctic Region. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, Akureyrl.
- Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
- Ebert, D. A., White, W. T., Goldman, K. J., Compagno, L. J. V., Daly-Engel, T. S. & Ward, R. D. (2010) Resurrection and redescription of Squalus suckleyi (Girard, 1854) from the North Pacific, with comments on the Squalus acanthias subgroup (Squaliformes: Squalidae). Zootaxa, 2612, 22 - 40. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2612.1.2
- Ebert, D. A., Fowler, S. & Compagno, L. (2013) Sharks of the World. Wild Nature Press, Plymouth, Great Britain. 528 p.
- Robertson, D. R. and Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 2.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa. http: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages
- Mecklenburg, C. W., Mecklenburg, T. A., Sheiko, B. A. & Steinke, D. (2016) Pacific Arctic Marine Fishes. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, Akureyri.