Species Centrophorus granulosus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Squalus granulosus Bloch, M.E. & Schneider, J.G. 1801. Systema Ichthyologiae Iconibus ex Illustratum. Berlin 584 pp. 110 pls. [135].

  Type data:

   Neotype AMNH 78263, Off Puerto Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands [28°19.0 - 21.55'N, 16°19.4 - 13.45'W,]
  Comment: Original type status and whereabouts unknown and no locality given.

  Subsequent designation references:

  White, W.T., Ebert, D.A., Naylor, G.J.P., Ho, H-C., Clerkin, P., Veríssimo, A. & Cotton, C.F. 2013. Revision of the genus Centrophorus (Squaliformes: Centrophoridae): Part 1—Redescription of Centrophorus granulosus (Bloch & Schneider), a senior synonym of C. acus Garman and C. niaukang Teng. Zootaxa 3752(1): 35-72 [43].
• Centrophorus acus Garman, S. 1906. New Plagiostomia. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 46(11): 201-208 [204].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ 1049-S, Yokohama market, Japan.
• Centrophorus niaukang Teng, H.-T. 1959. Studies on the elasmobranch fishes from Formosa. Pt. 6. A new species of deep-sea shark (Centrophorus niaukang) from Formosa. Reports of the Laboratory of Fishery Biology of the Taiwan Fisheries Research Institute, Keelung 9: 1-6 [1, pl. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype TFRI 3612, Northeastern coast of Taiwan, Tou-cheng, near Kuei-shan Island, Ilan Prefecture [24°48'N, 121°54'E].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• White, W.T., Ebert, D.A., Naylor, G.J.P., Ho, H-C., Clerkin, P., Veríssimo, A. & Cotton, C.F. 2013. Revision of the genus Centrophorus (Squaliformes: Centrophoridae): Part 1—Redescription of Centrophorus granulosus (Bloch & Schneider), a senior synonym of C. acus Garman and C. niaukang Teng. Zootaxa 3752(1): 35-72 [43]

 

Generic Combinations

• Centrophorus granulosus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801). —
  Müller, J. & Henle, F.G.J. 1837. Gattungen der Haifische und Rochen, nach ihrer Arbeit: "Ueber die Naturgeschichte der Knorpelfische". Bericht der Königlisch Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1836: 111-118 [115] (changed combination as type of genus Centrophorus)

 

Introduction

This species was recently redescribed by White et al. (2013) who treat C. acus and C. niaukang as junior synonyms, thus increasing the distribution to include Australia.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

West of Dirk Hartog Island (26°05’ S) to west of Montebello Islands (20°25’ S), WA, and from northeast Queensland to off Wooli in NSW (29°58’ S); tropical, Indo-west Pacific, Atlantic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Eastern Transition (15), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Central Western Transition (5)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: continental slope.

Demersal.

Extra Ecological Information

100-1000 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. [83] (non Australian records and p. 82 as Centrophorus acus)

Compagno, L.J.V. & Niem, V.H. 1998. Hexanchidae, Echinorhinidae, Squalidae. pp. 1208-1232 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, V.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 2 687-1396 pp. [1223] (and p. 1224 as C. niaukang)

Hoese, D.F. & Gates, J.E. 2006. Families Dalatiidae and Centrophoridae. pp. 140-152 in Hoese, D.F., Bray, D.J., Paxton, J.R. & Allen, G.R. Fishes. In, Beesley, P.L. & Wells, A. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 35. Volume 35 Australia : ABRS & CSIRO Publishing Parts 1-3, 2178 pp. [150]

Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 1994. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Canberra : CSIRO Australia 513 pp. 84 pls. [55]

Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 2009. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Australia 2, 550 pp. [62] (as Centrophorus niaukang and C. acus)

White, W.T., Ebert, D.A., Naylor, G.J.P., Ho, H-C., Clerkin, P., Veríssimo, A. & Cotton, C.F. 2013. Revision of the genus Centrophorus (Squaliformes: Centrophoridae): Part 1—Redescription of Centrophorus granulosus (Bloch & Schneider), a senior synonym of C. acus Garman and C. niaukang Teng. Zootaxa 3752(1): 35-72 [43]

White, W.T., Ebert, D.A. & Compagno, L.J.V. 2008. Description of two new species of gulper sharks, genus Centrophorus (Chondrichthyes: Squaliformes: Centrophoridae) from Australia. pp. 1-21 in Last, P.R., White, W.T. & Pogonoski, J.J. (eds). Descriptions of new Australian chondrichthyans. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper No. 022: 1-358

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
06-Mar-2023	CENTROPHORIDAE	07-Mar-2023	MODIFIED
	CENTROPHORIDAE	07-Feb-2014	ADDED	Dr Doug Hoese