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Oxynotidae

Description

Family Oxynotidae

Oxynotus centrina (Linnaeus, 1758) No common name in Madeira; Angular roughshark

Lowe 1838: 194 (as Centrina Salviani)

Noronha & Sarmento 1934: 137 | Nobre 1935: 444 (as Centrina centrina)

Ebert & Stehmann 2013: 122.

Distribution in Macaronesia. possibly Madeira archipelago, Canary Islands (Brito et al. 2002; Brito Hernández & Sancho Rafel 2003) and Cape Verde (Reiner 1996, 2005).

Remarks. Since no specimens or other material from Madeira were found in natural history museum collections, at this point, the presence of this species is considered as subject to confirmation.

Oxynotus paradoxus Frade, 1929 —No common name in Madeira; Sailfin roughshark

Quéro 1984d: 127 | Carneiro et al. 2014: 14 | Ebert & Stehmann 2013: 124

Distribution in Macaronesia. possibly Madeira archipelago, Azores (Santos et al. 1997; Azevedo et al. 2003; Carneiro et al. 2014), Canary Islands (Ebert & Stehmann 2013) and Cape Verde (Hanel & John 2014, but with no specimens).

Remarks. since no specimens or other material from Madeira were found in natural history museum collections, at this point, the presence of this species is considered as subject to confirmation.

Notes

Published as part of Biscoito, Manuel, Ribeiro, Cláudia & Freitas, Mafalda, 2018, Annotated checklist of the fishes of the archipelago of Madeira (NE Atlantic): I-Chondrichthyes, pp. 459-494 in Zootaxa 4429 (3) on page 485, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4429.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1285016

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Squaliformes
Family
Oxynotidae
Taxon rank
family

References

  • Lowe, R. T. (1838) A synopsis of the fishes of Madeira; with the principal synonyms, Portuguese names, and characteres of the new Genera and Species. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 2, Part 3 (14), 173 - 200.
  • Noronha, A. C. & Sarmento, A. A. (1934) Os peixes dos mares da Madeira. Diario de Noticias, Funchal, 146 pp.
  • Nobre, A. (1935) Fauna Marinha de Portugal. I Vertebrados (Mamiferos, Repteis e Peixes). Editora do Minho, Porto, 574 pp.
  • Ebert, D. A. & Stehmann, M. (2013) Sharks, batoids and chimaeras of the North Atlantic. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 7. FAO, Rome, 523 pp.
  • Brito, A., Pascual, P. J., Falcon, J. M., Sancho, A. & Gonzalez, G. (2002) Peces de las Islas Canarias: catalogo comentado e ilustrado. Francisco Lemus, La Laguna, 419 pp.
  • Reiner, F. (1996) Catalogo dos peixes do Arquipelago de Cabo Verde. nº 2. Publicacoes Avulsas do IPIMAR, Lisboa, 339 pp.
  • Reiner, F. (2005) Peixes do Arquipelago de Cabo Verde. Instituto Nacional de Desenvolvimento das Pescas. Mindelo, 340 pp.
  • Quero, J. C. (1984 d) Sphyrnidae and Oxynotidae. In: Whitehead, P. J. P., Bauchot, M. - L., Hureau, J. - C. & Tortonese, E. (Eds.), Fishes of the North-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Unesco, Paris, pp. 122 - 127.
  • Carneiro, M., Martins, R., Landi, M. & Costa, F. O. (2014) Updated checklist of marine fishes (Chordata: Craniata) from Portugal and the proposed extension of the Portuguese continental shelf. European Journal of Taxonomy, 73, 1 - 73. https: // doi. org / 10.5852 / ejt. 2014.73
  • Santos, R. S., Porteiro, F. & Barreiros, J. P. (1997) Marine fishes of the Azores: annotated checklist and bibliography, Arquipelago, 1 (Supplement), 1 - 244.
  • Azevedo, J. M. N., Sousa, F. L. & Brum, J. M. M. (2003) Dermal denticles and morphometrics of the sailfin roughshark Oxynotus paradoxus (Elasmobranchii, Oxynotidae), with comments on its geographic distiribution. Cybium, 27, 117 - 122.
  • Hanel, R. & John, H. - C. (2014) A revised checklist of Cape Verde Islands sea fishes. Journal of Applied Ichthyology, 1 - 35. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / jai. 12621