Chlamydoselachus africana Ebert & Compagno 2009
Description
Chlamydoselachus africana Ebert & Compagno, 2009
Southern African Frilled Shark
Chlamydoselachus africana Ebert & Compagno, 2009: 3, Figs. 1 –4, 6. Holotype: SAM 31028. Type locality: Off Cunene River, Namibia, 19°59'S, 11°48'E, southeastern Atlantic.
Local synonymy: Chlamydoselachus anguineus: Smith, 1951: 87; Smith, 1965: 511, fig. 3b; Smith, 1967a: 105, pls. 19–23; Bass et al., 1975d: 16, fig. 9, pl. 6; Compagno, 1984a: 14, fig. (in part); Bass, 1986: 47, fig. 3.1; Compagno et al., 1989: 20, pl.; Compagno et al., 1991: 51. Chlamydoselachus sp. A: Ebert, 1990: 217, figs. 3.1, 3.12 (in part); Compagno, 1999: 114; Compagno et al., 2005: 66, fig., pl. 1. Chlamydoselachus sp. nov.: Compagno, 1999: 114. Chlamydoselachus africana: Barnett et al., 2012: 967; Ebert, 2013: 33–34; Ebert et al., 2013 a: 64, fig., pl. 1; Ebert & Mostarda, 2013: 9; NPOA, 2013: 37; Ebert, 2015: 36–40, fig. 34; da Silva et al., 2015: 246; Ebert & Mostarda, 2015: 9, fig.; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 144; Compagno, 2016: 1144; Weigmann, 2016: 887.
South Africa voucher material: None. All known specimens caught in South African waters were discarded.
South Africa distribution: South African range poorly-defined with records off the Cape Peninsula (WC) (R. W. Leslie, formerly, Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries [DAFF], Cape Town, South Africa, pers. comm.), the EC, and KZN (Ebert & Compagno, 2009).
Remarks: An apparent southern African endemic presently confirmed from southern Angola, Namibia, and South Africa. A single specimen was reported by Smith (1951) to have been caught off the Port Alfred Pier (EC), but the specimen was not retained. Since no specimens have been captured and examined since the description of C. africana, all South African literature records of frilled sharks are attributed to this species for now. Records of frilled sharks from seamounts off Mozambique should also be carefully examined (Ebert, 2013).
Conservation status: LC (2019).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- R, DAFF , SAM
- Family
- Chlamydoselachidae
- Genus
- Chlamydoselachus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hexanchiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Ebert & Compagno
- Species
- africana
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chlamydoselachus africana Ebert, 2009 sec. Ebert, Wintner & Kyne, 2021
References
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- Smith, J. L. B. (1951) A new galeorhinid shark from South Africa, with notes on other species. Annuals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 12, 4 (37), 86 - 93. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222935108654128
- 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 a) The lizard shark Chlamydoselachus anguineus Garman in South Africa. Occasional Papers of the Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, 10, 105 - 115.
- Bass, A. J., D'Aubrey, J. D. & Kistnasamy, N. (1975 d) Sharks of the east coast of southern Africa. V. The families Hexanchidae, Chlamydoselachidae, Heterodontidae, Pristiophoridae, and Squatinidae. Investigational Report. Oceanographic Research Institute, Durban, 43, 1 - 50.
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