Scyliorhinus
| Scyliorhinus Temporal range: Late Albian to present
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| Nursehound (Scyliorhinus stellaris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Superorder: | 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.[2][3]
Species[]
There are currently 16 recognized species in this genus:
- Scyliorhinus boa Goode & T. H. Bean, 1896 (boa catshark)
- Scyliorhinus cabofriensis , & , 2016[4]
- Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758) (small-spotted catshark)
- Scyliorhinus capensis (J. P. Müller & Henle, 1838) (yellowspotted catshark)
- Scyliorhinus cervigoni & , 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, & Nakaya, 1992 (Izu catshark)
- Scyliorhinus torazame (S. Tanaka (I), 1908) (cloudy catshark)
- Scyliorhinus torrei Howell-Rivero, 1936 (dwarf catshark)
- Scyliorhinus ugoi , & , 2015 (dark freckled catshark) [5]
Extinct species[]
Fossil of Scyliorhinus elongatus from the Cretaceous of Lebanon
- † Lautiro Mora, 1999
- † (Münster, 1843)
- † (Agassiz, 1843)
- † Cappetta, 1980
- † Cappetta & Case, 1999
- † Halter, 1995
- † Reinecke, 2014
- † Cappetta, 1980
- † Underwood & Ward, 2008
- † Halter, 1990
- † Herman, 1974
- † (Woodward, 1889)
- † (Davis, 1887)
- † Noubhani & Cappetta, 1997
- † (Leriche, 1927)
- † Case & Cappetta, 1997
- † Cappetta, 1970
- † Leder, 2015
- † Karasawa, 1989
- † Halter, 1995
- † Dartevelle & Casier, 1959
- † Guinot, Underwood, Cappetta & Ward, 2013
- † Herman, 1975
- † Guinot, Underwood, Cappetta & Ward, 2013
- † Herman, 1977
- † Noubhani & Cappetta, 1997
- † Halter, 1995
- † Reinecke, 2014
- † Noubhani & Cappetta, 1997
- † Cappetta & Case, 1999
- † Case, 1987
- † Adnet, 2006
- † Halter, 1990
- † 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.
- ^ a b 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)
Categories:
- Scyliorhinus
- Extant Albian first appearances
- Shark genera
- Taxa named by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville