Species Deania calceus (Lowe, 1839)
Brier Shark, Birdbeak Dogfish, Deepwater Dogfish, Dorian Grey, Dorian Grey Shark, Platypus Shark, Roughskin Dogfish, Shovelnose Spiny Dogfish, Thompson's Deepsea Dogfish, Thompson's Shark, Thompsons Deepsea Dogfish, Thompsons Shark
- Acanthidium calceus Lowe, R.T. 1839. A supplement to a synopsis of the fishes of Madeira. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 3: 1-20 [19] [also in Lowe, R.T. 1839. A supplement to a synopsis of the fishes of Madeira. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 7: 76–92 (92); note that the name is from the Latin noun calceus = shoe or slipper and the appropriate spelling is calceus and not calcea].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown, off Madeira, Portugal. - Deania eglantina Jordan, D.S. & Snyder, J.O. 1902. Descriptions of two new species of squaloid sharks from Japan. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 25(1279): 79-81 figs 1-2 [80, fig. 2].
Type data:
Holotype USNM 49524, Totomi Bay, off Numazu, Japan. - Centrophorus kaikourae Whitley, G.P. 1934. Notes on some Australian sharks. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 10(4): 180-200 figs 1-4 pls 27-29 [199] [after Centrophorus calceus Lowe in Thompson, E.F. 1930. New records of the genera Centrophorus and Hoplichthys in New Zealand. Record of the Canterbury Museum 3(4): 275–279 pls 42–44].
Type data:
Holotype CMNZ (lost), off Kaikoura, NZ.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Garrick, J.A.F. 1960. Studies on New Zealand Elasmobranchii. Part XI — Squaloids of the genera Deania, Etmopterus, Oxynotus and Dalatias in New Zealand waters. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 88(3): 489-517 figs 1-8 pl. 26 [493]
Generic Combinations
- Centrophorus calceus (Lowe, 1839). —
Günther, A. 1870. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, [thru] Leptocardii, in the British Museum. London : British Museum Vol. 8 549 pp. [423]
Introduction
The species name is frequently changed to calcea, but the name was originally spelled calceus and is a noun in apposition.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Off Coffs Harbour, NSW (30º19´S) to off Green Head, WA (30º04´S, 114º58´E); tropical, temperate, discontinuous (east Atlantic, southern Africa, New Zealand and Chile).
IMCRA
Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)
Ecological Descriptors
Continental shelf, continental slope, marine.
Extra Ecological Information
70-1470 m, usually 600-100 m
General References
Munro, I.S.R. 1961. Handbook of Australian fishes. Nos 1–42. Australian Fisheries Newsletter 15–17, 19, 20: 1-172 [published as separates 1956–1961] [11] (77, as Daenia [sic] kaikourae)
Stead, D.G. 1963. Sharks and Rays of Australian Seas. Sydney : Angus & Robertson 211 pp. 63 figs. [121]
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. [100]
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. [88]
Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [34] (102, as Deania kaikourae)
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. [66] (FAO) (Birdbeak 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. [55] (Deepwater Dogfish, Platypus Shark, Roughskin Dogfish)
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. [100] (Brier Shark, Shovelnose Spiny Dogfish, Thompson's Shark)
Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 1994. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Canberra : CSIRO Australia 513 pp. 84 pls. [70] (Dorian Grey Shark, Thompsons Deepsea Dogfish, Thompsons Shark)
May, J.L. & Maxwell, J.G.H. 1986. Field Guide to Trawl Fish from Temperate Waters of Australia. Hobart : CSIRO Division of Marine Research 492 pp. [120] (Thompson's Deepsea Dogfish)
Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & Steene, R. 1990. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 507 pp. figs. [101] (Dorian Grey)
Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/. (Brier Shark)
History of changes
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| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |