Scyliorhinus Explained

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

• †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

Notes and References

1. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=34663# Fossilworks: Scyliorhinus at Paleobiology Database.
2. Carrier, J. C.; Musick, J. A. & Heithaus, M. R. (2004). Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives.
3. 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 . 10.11646/zootaxa.3937.2.6 . 25947474 .