Angular Rough Shark
Squalus centrina Linnaeus, 1758: 233. Holotype: Unknown. Type locality: “Habitat in mari Mediterranao” [Mediterranean Sea].
Local synonymy: Oxynotus centrina: Barnard, 1949: 970; Smith, 1965: 513, fig. 54a; Penrith, 1969: 60; Compagno, 1984a: 127, fig.; Bass et al., 1986: 59, fig. 5.21; Compagno et al., 1989: 20, pl.; Compagno, 1999: 115; Compagno et al., 2005: 123, fig., pl. 13; Ebert et al., 2013a: 163, fig., pl. 16; Ebert, 2015: 101, fig. 116; Ebert & Mostada, 2015: 16, fig.; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 145; Compagno, 2016: 1203; Weigmann, 2016: 899. Oxynotus sp.: Bass et al., 1976: 8, fig. 5. Oxynotus shubnikovi Myagkov, 1986: 171, fig. 59; Compagno et al., 1991: 72.
South Africa voucher material: SAM 22507.
South Africa distribution: A very rare species in South African waters known from a specimen off Cape Town (WC) (Barnard, 1949).
Remarks: Myagkov (1986) named a new species O. shubnikovi from northern Namibia, but a review of the available regional material found no distinct characteristics to separate it from the European O. centrina.
Conservation status: VU (2007).