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Centrophorus Müller & Henle 1837
Description
Genus Centrophorus Müller & Henle, 1837a
Gulper Sharks
Centrophorus M̹ller & Henle, 1837a: 115. Type species: Squalus granulosus Bloch & Schneider, 1801, by monotypy.
Remarks: Centrophorus species from South Africa should be re-examined and re-identified to clarify the species occurring here. Presently, at least four, possibly five, species occur in South African waters.
Notes
Published as part of Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 4947 (1) on pages 23-24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4614567
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Müller & Henle
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Squaliformes
- Family
- Centrophoridae
- Genus
- Centrophorus
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Centrophorus Müller, 1837 sec. Ebert, Wintner & Kyne, 2021
References
- M ʾ ller, J. & Henle, F. G. J. (1837 a) Gattungen der Haifische und Rochen nach einer von ihm mit Hrn. Henle unternommenen gemeinschaftlichen Arbeit ʾ ber die Naturgeschichte der Knorpelfische. Bericht Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1837, 111 - 118.
- Bloch, M. E. & Schneider, J. G. (1801) Systema ichthyologiae iconibus ex illustratum. Vol. 2. Sumtibus auctoris impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano commissum, Berlin, 584 pp.