Centroscyllium fabricii ( Reinhardt, 1825 )

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 : 27

Centroscyllium fabricii ( Reinhardt, 1825)

Black Dogfish

Spinax fabricii Reinhardt, 1825: 3 . Syntypes: ZMUC P 07106 [ex 185] (1 stuffed). Type locality: Julianehåb , Greenland, western North Atlantic.

Local synonymy: Centroscyllium fabricii: Compagno, 1984a: 47 , fig.; Compagno et al., 1989: 28, pl.; Compagno et al., 1991: 56; Ebert et al., 1992: 603; Compagno, 1999: 114; Ebert et al., 2013 a: 122, fig., pl. 8; NPOA, 2013: 37; Ebert, 2015: 71, fig. 77; Ebert & Mostarda, 2015: 24, fig.; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 144; Compagno, 2016: 1185; Weigmann, 2016: 893.

South Africa voucher material: SAIAB 25708, SAIAB 25736, SAIAB 26338, SAIAB 26339, SAIAB 26340, SAIAB 26424, SAIAB 26425, SAIAB 26426, SAIAB 26427, SAIAB 26428, SAIAB 26429, SAIAB 27183, SAIAB 30309.

South Africa distribution: From the Orange River (NC) to southwest of Cape Agulhas (WC).

Remarks: Compagno (1984a) reported the first South African record of this species from off the southwestern Cape. Previous southern African records were from off Namibia ( Bass et al., 1976). This is one of the most common species of deep-sea lanternsharks off the South African west coast.

Conservation status: LC (2020).