Chlamydoselachus anguineus Garman, 1884

Fermon, Yves, Bailly, Nicolas, Cardiec, Floriane, Causse, Romain, Chartrain, Emmanuel, Chirio, Laurent, Bruyne, Godefroy De, Deynat, Pascal, Hopkins, Carl D., Lamboj, Anton, Mennesson, Marion I., Beh, Jean-Hervé Mve, Paugy, Didier, Sidlauskas, Brian, Sullivan, John P., Weghe, Jean-Pierre Van De, Vigliotta, Thomas R. & Zee, Jouke Van Der, 2022, An annotated checklist of the fishes of Gabon, Cybium 46 (2), pp. 2-3 : 91

Chlamydoselachus anguineus Garman, 1884

Occurrence: possible

Maximum length: 200 cm TL

Water type: marine

Environment: bathydemersal

Depth range: 0-1570 m

Migration: unknown

IUCN status: LC – Least concern (2016)

Source: bibliography

Distribution and remarks: East Atlantic: known from northern Norway to northern Namibia, possibly the eastern Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. It has been caught off Arctic Norway, the British Isles, the Iberian Peninsula, Madeira, and North Africa. It has also been caught on the mid-Atlantic Ridge north of the Azores. Records from Angola, Namibia and South Africa refer to the Southern African Frilled Shark ( C. africana ) ( Compagno et al., 1989; Ebert and Compagno, 2009).