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Zameus squamulosus
Description
Zameus squamulosus (Günther, 1877).
Velvet Dogfish. To 115 cm (45.3 in) TL (Santos et al. 2020). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to southern Kuril Islands (Ebert et al. 2013); one record from southern California (33°43’N, 118°32’W) (Daniel Kamikawa, pers. comm. to M.L.); Peru and Chile (Ebert 2016). Depth: surface to 1,511 m (4,956 ft) (min.: Compagno in Carpenter and De Angelis 2016; max.: Weigman 2016), perhaps to about 2,000 m (6,560 ft), but without documentation (Roberts et al. 2015).
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 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Somniosidae
- Genus
- Zameus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Squaliformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gunther
- Species
- squamulosus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Zameus squamulosus (Gunther, 1877) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Santos, R., Novoa-Pabon, A., Silva, H. & Pinho, M. (2020) Elasmobranch species richness, fisheries, abundance and size composition in the Azorres archipelago (NE Atlantic). Marine Biology Research, 16, 103 - 116. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 17451000.2020.1718713
- Ebert, D. A., Fowler, S. & Compagno, L. (2013) Sharks of the World. Wild Nature Press, Plymouth, Great Britain. 528 p.
- Ebert, D. A. (2016) Deep-sea Cartilaginous Fishes of the Southeastern Pacific Ocean. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes, No. 10. Rome, FAO.
- Carpenter, K. E. & De Angelis, N. (Eds.). (2016) The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. Volume 2: Bivalves, Gastropods, Hagfishes, Sharks, Batoid Fishes, and Chimaeras, Volume 3: Bony Fishes Part 1 (Elopiformes to Scorpaeniformes). Volume 4: Bony Fishes Part 2 (Perciformes to Tetradontiformes) and Sea turtles. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes, Rome, FAO.
- Roberts, C. D., Stewart, A. L. & Struthers, C. D. (Eds.). (2015) The Fishes of New Zealand. Te Papa Press, Wellington.