Scyliorhinus
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.[2][3]
| Scyliorhinus | |
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| Nursehound (Scyliorhinus stellaris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Order: | Carcharhiniformes |
| Family: | Scyliorhinidae |
| Genus: | Scyliorhinus Blainville, 1816 |
| Type species | |
| Squalus canicula | |
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[4]
- 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 haeckelii (A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1907) (freckled catshark) [4]
- 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) [5]
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 woodwardi Cappetta, 1976
References
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- Sepkoski, J. (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Chondrichthyes entry)". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560. Archived from the original on 2012-05-10.
- Fossilworks: Scyliorhinus at Paleobiology Database.
- Carrier, J. C.; Musick, J. A. & Heithaus, M. R. (2004). Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives.
- 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.
- 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.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
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