Species Euprotomicrus bispinatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)

Museums

Regional Maps

External Links

• Scymnus bispinatus Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1824. Chapter 8. Poissons. 183-328 pls 43-65 in Freycinet, L.C.D. de (ed.). Voyage autour du Monde, entrepris par ordre du Roi, exécuté sur les corvettes de S.M. Uranie et la Physicienne, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820. Paris : Pillet Aîné Vol. 1 712 pp. 96 pls. [197, pl. 44(1-2)].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP 1216 ♂, Mauritius.
• Scymnus labordii Müller, J. & Henle, F.G.J. 1839. Systematische Beschreibung der Plagiostomen. Berlin : Veit & Co pp. 29-102 pls. [94].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Mauritius & Réunion Island.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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. [90]

 

Generic Combinations

• Euprotomicrus bispinatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824). —
  Regan, C.T. 1908. A synopsis of sharks of the family Squalidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 2: 39-57 [56]
  Garman, S. 1913. The Plagiostomia (sharks, skates and rays). Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 36: 1-528 pls 1-77 [235]
• Dalatias bispinatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824). —
  Gray, J.E. 1851. List of the Specimens of Fish in the Collection of the British Museum. Chondropterygii. London : British Museum 160 pp., 2 pls. [77]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Off Perth (31º57´S) to off Rowley Shoals (17º20´S); tropical, temperate, circumglobal.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, mesopelagic, oceanic.

Extra Ecological Information

Surface to 400 m

 

General 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. [90]

Compagno, L.J.V., Dando, M. & Fowler, S. 2005. A Field Guide to the Sharks of the World. London : Collins 368 pp. [126]

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. [1228]

Hubbs, C.L., Iwai, T. & Matsubara, K. 1967. External and internal characters, horizontal and vertical distribution, luminescence, and food of the dwarf pelagic shark, Euprotomicrus bispinatus. Bulletin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography 10: 1-64 figs 1-10 pls 1-8

Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 1994. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Canberra : CSIRO Australia 513 pp. 84 pls. [85]

Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 2009. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Australia 2, 550 pp. [101]

Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [34] (104)

 

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. [90] (Pygmy Shark)

Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/. (Pygmy Shark)

 

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)