Biology:Scyliorhinus

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Short description: Genus of sharks

Scyliorhinus
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Nursehound (Scyliorhinus stellaris)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Subdivision: Selachimorpha
Order: Carcharhiniformes
Family: Scyliorhinidae
Genus: Scyliorhinus
Blainville, 1816
Type species
Squalus canicula

Scyliorhinus is a genus of catsharks in the family Scyliorhinidae. This genus is known in the fossil records from the Cretaceous period, late Albian age to the Pliocene epoch.[1][2]

Species

There are currently 16 recognized species in this genus:

  • Scyliorhinus boa Goode & T. H. Bean, 1896 (boa catshark)
  • Scyliorhinus cabofriensis K. D. A. Soares, U. L. Gomes & M. R. de Carvalho, 2016[3]
  • Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758) (small-spotted catshark)
  • Scyliorhinus capensis (J. P. Müller & Henle, 1838) (yellowspotted catshark)
  • Scyliorhinus cervigoni Maurin & M. Bonnet, 1970 (West African catshark)
  • Scyliorhinus comoroensis L. J. V. Compagno, 1988 (Comoro catshark)
  • Scyliorhinus garmani (Fowler, 1934) (brownspotted catshark)
  • Scyliorhinus hachijoensis (Ito, Fujii, Nohara & Tanaka, 2022) (cinder cloudy catshark)
  • Scyliorhinus haeckelii (A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1907) (freckled catshark) [3]
  • Scyliorhinus hesperius S. Springer, 1966 (whitesaddled catshark)
  • Scyliorhinus meadi S. Springer, 1966 (blotched catshark)
  • Scyliorhinus retifer (Garman, 1881) (chain catshark)
  • Scyliorhinus stellaris (Linnaeus, 1758) (nursehound)
  • Scyliorhinus tokubee Shirai, S. Hagiwara & Nakaya, 1992 (Izu catshark)
  • Scyliorhinus torazame (S. Tanaka (I), 1908) (cloudy catshark)
  • Scyliorhinus torrei Howell-Rivero, 1936 (dwarf catshark)
  • Scyliorhinus ugoi K. D. A. Soares, Gadig & U. L. Gomes, 2015 (dark freckled catshark) [4]

Extinct species

Fossil of Scyliorhinus elongatus from the Cretaceous of Lebanon
  • Scyliorhinus ambliatlanticus Lautiro Mora, 1999
  • Scyliorhinus angustus (Münster, 1843)
  • Scyliorhinus antiquus (Agassiz, 1843)
  • Scyliorhinus arambourgi Cappetta, 1980
  • Scyliorhinus arlingtonensis Cappetta & Case, 1999
  • Scyliorhinus biddlei Halter, 1995
  • Scyliorhinus biformis Reinecke, 2014
  • Scyliorhinus bloti Cappetta, 1980
  • Scyliorhinus brumarivulensis Underwood & Ward, 2008
  • Scyliorhinus cepaeformis Halter, 1990
  • Scyliorhinus coupatezi Herman, 1974
  • Scyliorhinus dubius (Woodward, 1889)
  • Scyliorhinus elongatus (Davis, 1887)
  • Scyliorhinus entomodon Noubhani & Cappetta, 1997
  • Scyliorhinus fossilis (Leriche, 1927)
  • Scyliorhinus ivagrantae Case & Cappetta, 1997
  • Scyliorhinus joleaudi Cappetta, 1970
  • Scyliorhinus kannenbergi Leder, 2015
  • Scyliorhinus kasenoi Karasawa, 1989
  • Scyliorhinus luypaertsi Halter, 1995
  • Scyliorhinus malembeensis Dartevelle & Casier, 1959
  • Scyliorhinus monsaugustus Guinot, Underwood, Cappetta & Ward, 2013
  • Scyliorhinus moosi Herman, 1975
  • Scyliorhinus muelleri Guinot, Underwood, Cappetta & Ward, 2013
  • Scyliorhinus musteliformis Herman, 1977
  • Scyliorhinus ptychtus Noubhani & Cappetta, 1997
  • Scyliorhinus reyndersi Halter, 1995
  • Scyliorhinus suelstorfensis Reinecke, 2014
  • Scyliorhinus sulcidens Noubhani & Cappetta, 1997
  • Scyliorhinus taylorensis Cappetta & Case, 1999
  • Scyliorhinus tensleepensis Case, 1987
  • Scyliorhinus trifolius Adnet, 2006
  • Scyliorhinus wardi Halter, 1990
  • Scyliorhinus weemsi, 2022
  • Scyliorhinus woodwardi Cappetta, 1976

References

  1. Fossilworks: Scyliorhinus at Paleobiology Database.
  2. Carrier, J. C.; Musick, J. A. & Heithaus, M. R. (2004). Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Soares, K.D.A., Gomes, U.L. & De Carvalho, M.R. (2016): Taxonomic review of catsharks of the Scyliorhinus haeckelii group, with the description of a new species (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae). Zootaxa, 4066 (5): 501-534.
  4. Soares, K. D. A.; Gadig, O. B. F.; Gomes, U. L. (2015). "Scyliorhinus ugoi, a new species of catshark from Brazil (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae)". Zootaxa 3937 (2): 347–361. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3937.2.6. PMID 25947474. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274084482. 

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