Zameus squamulosus (Günther, 1877)

Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, Zootaxa 4947 (1), pp. 1-127 : 33

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4614632

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039287A1-9549-FFAE-CFF7-5BD6FDE9247E

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scientific name

Zameus squamulosus (Günther, 1877)
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Zameus squamulosus (Günther, 1877) View in CoL View at ENA

Velvet Dogfish

Centrophorus squamulosus G̹nther, 1877: 433. Holotype: BMNH 1880.5 .1.1, Challenger station 232, off Inosima, Japan, 35°11'N, 139°28'E. GoogleMaps

Local synonymy: Scymnodon ? obscurus: Bass et al., 1976: 35 . Scymnodon obscurus: Compagno, 1984a: 98 , fig. Centroscymnus obscurus: Bass et al., 1986: 53 , fig. 5.7. Zameus squamulosus: Taniuchi & Garrick, 1986: 129 , fig. 3; Compagno et al., 2005: 121, fig., pl. 11; Ebert, 2013: 101, fig. 139; Ebert et al., 2013 a: 159, fig., pl. 14; Ebert & Mostada, 2013: 43, fig.; Ebert & Dando, 2014: 91, fig.; Ebert, 2015: 97, fig. 114; Ebert & Mostada, 2015: 37, fig.; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 144; White et al., 2015: 213; Compagno, 2016: 1199, fig.; Weigmann, 2016: 901. Scymnodon squamulosus: Compagno et al., 1989: 32 , pl.; Compagno et al., 1991: 66; Ebert et al., 1992: 607; Compagno, 1999: 115.

South Africa voucher material: SAIAB 6093, SAIAB 99105, SAIAB 99106.

South Africa distribution: Entire coast from the Orange River (NC) to northern KZN.

Remarks: The first records of this species were found in the stomach of a Sperm Whale ( Physeter macrocephalus ) harpooned off Durban in 1971, which had four partially digested Z. squamulosus ( Bass et al., 1976) .

Conservation status: LC (2020).

SAIAB

South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Elasmobranchii

Order

Squaliformes

Family

Somniosidae

Genus

Zameus

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