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Scylliogaleus quecketti : Boulenger 1902

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Scylliogaleus quecketti Boulenger, 1902

Flapnose Houndshark

Scylliogaleus quecketti Boulenger, 1902: 51, pl. 4. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1903.2.6.21. Type locality: off Umkomaas, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, southwestern Indian Ocean.

Local synonymy: Scylliogaleus quecketti: Boulenger, 1902: 51, pl. 4; Garman, 1913: 179; Fowler, 1941: 210; Barnard, 1947: 10, fig. 7, pl. 1; Smith, 1950: 878; Smith, 1957c: 353, figs. 1a, b; Bass et al., 1975b: 13, fig. 8; Compagno, 1984b: 427, fig.; Bass et al., 1986: 85, fig. 9.34; Compagno, 1988a: 16; Compagno et al., 1989: 56, pl.; Compagno, 1999: 119; Compagno et al., 2005: 280, fig., pl. 45; Ebert et al., 2013 a: 427, fig., pl. 55; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 146, Weigmann, 2016: 886. Scylliogaleus queketti: Boulenger, 1903: 63; Gilchrist & Thompson, 1916: 283; Barnard, 1925: 31, pl. 1; Barnard, 1927: 1013; von Bonde, 1934: 14; Smith, 1949a: 44; fig. 16; Smith, 1965: 44; fig. 16.

South Africa voucher material: SAIAB 6096 [ex ORI 2096], SAIAB 6097 [ex ORI 1121], SAIAB 6109 [ex ORI 2096], SAIAB 6110 [ex ORI 2587], SAIAB 6213 [ex ORI 754], SAIAB 6214 [ex ORI 2586], SAIAB 6227, SAIAB 6978 [ex ORI 2074], SAIAB 6979 [ex ORI 2096], SAIAB 6980 [ex ORI 1121], SAIAB 12822, SAIAB 12977, SAIAB 14915, SAIAB 16308, SAIAB 19430, SAIAB 99204, SAIAB 99205.

South African distribution: Endemic. Known only from East London (EC) to Richards Bay (KZN).

Remarks: This species has a very restricted nearshore coastal distribution.

Conservation status: VU (2019).

Notes

Published as part of Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 4947 (1) on page 58, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4614567

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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1 (DOI)
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Biodiversity

Collection code
BMNH
Family
Triakidae
Genus
Scylliogaleus
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
BMNH 1903.2
Order
Carcharhiniformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
: Boulenger
Species
quecketti
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Scylliogaleus quecketti Boulenger, 1902 sec. Ebert, Wintner & Kyne, 2021

References

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  • Garman, S. (1913) The Plagiostomia (sharks, skates, and rays). Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College, 36, 1 - 515.
  • Fowler, H. W. (1941) The fishes of the groups Elasmobranchii, Holocephali, Isospondyli, and Ostarophysi obtained by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries streamer " Albatross " in 1907 to 1910, chiefly in the Philippine Islands and adjacent seas. Bulletin United States National Museum, 100, 1 - 879.
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