Species Centroscymnus owstonii Garman, 1906

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• Centroscymnus owstonii Garman, S. 1906. New Plagiostomia. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 46(11): 201-208 [207].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ 1037, Yenoura, Sagami Bay, Japan.
• Centroscymnus cryptacanthus Regan, C.T. 1906. Descriptions of some new sharks in the British Museum collection. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 18(65): 435-440 [437].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1865.5.20.14, Madeira.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Compagno, L.J.V. 2003. Sharks. pp. 357-505 in Carpenter, K.E. (ed.). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 1 601 pp. [406] (Soto, J.M.R. 2001. Contribuição ao conhecimento do tubarão-negro Centroscymnus cryptacanthus Regan, 1906 (Chondrichthyes, Dalatiidae) e a sinonimização de C. owstoni Garman, 1906. Mare Magnum 1(1): 27-36 regarded cryptacanthus as the senior synonym, but publication date of owstonii predates that species)

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Off Cape Hawke, NSW (ca. 32°13'S) to Exmouth Gulf, WA; temperate, discontinuous (west Pacific, New Zealand and Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental slope, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

500-1400 m

 

General References

Bass, A.J. 1979. Records of little-known sharks from Australian waters. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 103(4): 247-254 figs 1-5 [1978]

Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. FAO Species Catalogue. Sharks of the World. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of shark species known to date. Hexanchiformes to Lamniformes. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125. Rome : FAO Vol. 4(1) pp. 1-249. [59]

Compagno, L.J.V., Dando, M. & Fowler, S. 2005. A Field Guide to the Sharks of the World. London : Collins 368 pp. [102]

Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 1994. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Canberra : CSIRO Australia 513 pp. 84 pls. [65]

Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 2009. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Australia 2, 550 pp. [89]

Stevens, J.D. 1994. Families Echinorhinidae, Squalidae, Oxynotidae, Parascyllidae, Orectolobidae. pp. 91-118 figs 28-73 in Gomon, M.F., Glover, C.J.M. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). The Fishes of Australia's South Coast. Adelaide : State Printer 992 pp. 810 figs. [97]

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. [93]

 

Common Name References

Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. FAO Species Catalogue. Sharks of the World. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of shark species known to date. Hexanchiformes to Lamniformes. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125. Rome : FAO Vol. 4(1) pp. 1-249. [59] (FAO) (Roughskin Dogfish)

Daley, R.K., Stevens, J.D., Last, P.R. & Yearsley, G.K. 2002. Field Guide to Australian Sharks & Rays. Hobart : CSIRO Marine Research 84 pp. [54] (Black Shark, Smallspine Dogfish, Smallspine Shark)

Gomon, M.F., Glover, C.J.M. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds) 1994. The Fishes of Australia's South Coast. Adelaide : State Printer 992 pp. 810 figs. [97] (Deepwater Dogfish, Owston's Spiny Dogfish, Owstons Dogfish)

Last, P.R., Scott, E.O.G. & Talbot, F.H. 1983. Fishes of Tasmania. Hobart : Tasmanian Fisheries Development Authority 563 pp. figs. [137] (Owston's Dogfish)

Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/. (Owston's Dogfish)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
16-Apr-2012		16-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)