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Centroscyllium nigrum Garman 1899
Description
Centroscyllium nigrum Garman, 1899.
Combtooth Dogfish or Pacific Black Dogfish. To 52 cm (20.4 in) TL (Ebert et al. 2013). Southern California (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) and northern Baja California (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California) to central Chile (Sielfeld and Vargas 1996), Isla del Cocos, Islas Galápagos, and Hawai’i (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Depth: 269–1,212 m (883–3,975 ft) (min.: Long 1994; max.: Bradburn et al. 2011). What was likely a combtooth dogfish was photographed off La Jolla, southern California, at a depth of 32 m (105 ft) (Herb Gruenhagen, pers. comm. to M.L.).
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
- Etmopteridae
- Genus
- Centroscyllium
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Squaliformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Garman
- Species
- nigrum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Centroscyllium nigrum Garman, 1899 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Ebert, D. A., Fowler, S. & Compagno, L. (2013) Sharks of the World. Wild Nature Press, Plymouth, Great Britain. 528 p.
- 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.
- Long, D. L. (1994) First records of the combtooth dogfish shark, Centroscyllium nigrum (Chondrichthyes: Squalidae) from the Pacific subantarctic of Chile. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 40, 478 - 481.
- Bradburn, M. J., Keller, A. A. & Horness, B. H. (2011) The 2003 to 2008 U. S. West Coast bottom trawl surveys of groundfish resources off Washington, Oregon, and California: estimates of distribution, abundance, length, and age composition. National Marine Fisheries Service Technical Memorandum, NMFS-NWFSC- 114.