Species Galeus gracilis Compagno & Stevens, 1993

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• Galeus gracilis Compagno, L J.V. & Stevens, J.D. 1993. Galeus gracilis n. sp., a new sawtail catshark from Australia, with comments on the systematics of the genus Galeus Rafinesque, 1810 (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae). Records of the Australian Museum 45(2): 171-194 [174, figs 1-9, 13E].

  Type data:

   Holotype CSIRO H1208-01, upper slope north of Melville Island.
  Paratype(s) CSIRO CA3304; CSIRO CA4477; CSIRO CA4478.

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Galeus sp. A. —
  Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 1994. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Canberra : CSIRO Australia 513 pp. 84 pls. [199]

 

Introduction

Recorded from Papua New Guinea by Fricke et al. (2014) however this is based on a misidentification of Galeus corriganae White, Mana & Naylor, 2016. See White & Ko'ou (2018).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Patchy records between Cape Cuvier and Port Hedland, WA and North West Shelf to N of Melville Island, NT (9°49´S, 130°15´E) and Cape York, north QLD; tropical.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Cape Province (20), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental slope, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

290–470 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. [226]

Compagno, L.J.V. & Niem, V.H. 1998. Families Scyliorhinidae, Proscylliidae. pp. 1279-1292 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. [1290]

Fricke, R., Allen, G.R., Andréfouët, S., Chen, W.-J., Hamel, M.A., Laboute, P., Mana, R., Hui, T.H. & Uyeno, D. 2014. Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of Madang District, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 820 new records. Zootaxa 3832(1): 1-247 [12]

Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 1994. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Canberra : CSIRO Australia 513 pp. 84 pls. [199] (as Galeus sp. A)

Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 2009. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Australia 2, 550 pp. [219]

White, W.T. & Ko'ou, A. 2018. An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea. Zootaxa 4411(1): 1-81 [27]

 

Common Name References

Compagno, L.J.V. & Niem, V.H. 1998. Families Scyliorhinidae, Proscylliidae. pp. 1279-1292 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. [1290] (Slender Sawtail Catshark)

Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 1994. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Canberra : CSIRO Australia 513 pp. 84 pls. [199] (as G. sp. A) (Slender Sawtail Shark)

Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/. (Slender Sawtail Catshark)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Jun-2024	ELASMOBRANCHII	17-Apr-2024	MODIFIED
16-Apr-2012		16-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)