Species Apristurus melanoasper Iglésias, Nakaya & Stehmann, 2004

Museums

Regional Maps

• Apristurus melanoasper Iglésias, S.P., Nakaya, K. & Stehmann, M. 2004. Apristurus melanoasper, a new species of deep-water catshark from the North Atlantic (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae). Cybium 28(4): 345-356 [346, figs 1-5].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP 2000-1757, Lorien Bank, North Atlantic [54°21.5'-54°22.0'N, 19°28.1'-19°44.4'W].
  Paratype(s) ARC 8602997; ISH 26/1974; ISH 49/1974; MCZ 125408; MNHP 1999-0780; MNHP 1999-0782; MNHP 1999-0783; MNHP 2000-1754; MNHP 2000-1755; MNHP 2000-1756; MNHP 2000-1758; MNHP 2000-1760; MNHP 2000-1761-63; MNHP 2000-1761-68; MNHP 2001-1111.

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Apristurus sp. C. —
  Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 1994. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Canberra : CSIRO Australia 513 pp. 84 pls.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Sugarloaf Point, NSW to Cape Leeuwin, WA and TAS; disjunct (New Zealand, New Caledonia and North Atlantic); temperate

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental slope, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

900-1275 m

 

General References

Compagno, L.J.V., Dando, M. & Fowler, S. 2005. A Field Guide to the Sharks of the World. London : Collins 368 pp. [204] (as Apristurus sp. C)

Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 1994. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Canberra : CSIRO Australia 513 pp. 84 pls. [175] (as Apristurus sp. C)

Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 2009. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Australia 2, 550 pp. [192]

White, W. 2008. Shark Families Heterodontidae to Pristiophoridae. pp. 32-100 in Gomon, M.F., Bray, D.J. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). Fishes of Australia's Southern Coast. Sydney : Reed New Holland 928 pp. [54]

 

Common Name References

Compagno, L.J.V., Dando, M. & Fowler, S. 2005. A Field Guide to the Sharks of the World. London : Collins 368 pp. [204] (Fleshynose Catshark)

Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 2009. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Australia 2, 550 pp. [192] (Fleshynose Catshark)

 

History of changes

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16-Apr-2012		16-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)