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Scyliorhinus canicula
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Description
Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus 1758) —Small-spotted catshark
Taxonomy. First record from Lebanon as Scyllium caninula, Cuv. by Gruvel (1931: 73). The species was never recorded afterwards.
Distribution. Western Baltic Sea, North Sea, western Mediterranean Sea, northeastern Atlantic: Shetland Islands and southern Norway south to Senegal.
Conservation. IUCN: Global (LC: 1 December 2008); Med. (LC: 25 March 2016). Capture and threats: FIT, FIB, unknown. Occurrence: Unknown.
Remarks. Gruvel (1931: 74) mentioned that the species, along with Scyliorhinus stellaris (Linnaeus 1758), were abundant and hated by fishermen.
Notes
Published as part of Bariche, Michel & Fricke, Ronald, 2020, The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status, pp. 1-157 in Zootaxa 4775 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4775.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3983887
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- LC
- Event date
- 2008-12-01
- Family
- Scyliorhinidae
- Genus
- Scyliorhinus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Carcharhiniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- canicula
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2008-12-01/2016-03-25
- Taxonomic concept label
- Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Bariche & Fricke, 2020
References
- Gruvel, A. (1931) Les Etats de Syrie. Richesses marines et fluviales. Exploitation actuelle-Avenir. Societe d'Editions Geographiques, Maritimes et Coloniale, 453 pp.