Leptochariidae, Gray, 1851

Elasmobranch, Its Implications For Global, Parasitology, Diversity And, Naylor, G. J. P., Sc, Caira, J. N., Ct, Jensen, K., Ks, Rosana, K. A. M., Fl, White, W. T., Csiro, Tas, Last, P. R., Csiro & Tas, 2012, A Dna Sequence-Based Approach To The Identification Of Shark And Ray Species And Its Implications For Global Elasmobranch Diversity And Parasitology, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2012 (367), pp. 1-262 : 35

Leptochariidae (barbeled houndsharks)

Leptocharias smithii (barbeled houndshark) ( fig. 22)

All three of our specimens were collected off of Senegal and represent the northern region of the distribution of this species which extends south from there along the coast of western Africa to Angola. The analysis yielded a single cluster ; the range in pairwise differences among these three specimens was 0–1.