Scyliorhinus stellaris Linnaeus 1758 ...

• Main Authors: Gordon, Cat A., Hood, Ali R., Ellis, Jim R.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Elasmobranchii; Carcharhiniformes; Scyliorhinidae; Scyliorhinus; Scyliorhinus stellaris; Canicula; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3509558; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.3509558

Scyliorhinus stellaris (Linnaeus, 1758) Distribution. Nursehound (S. stellaris) is present in the Northeast Atlantic from southern Scandinavia to Morocco, including the Mediterranean Sea (Stehmann & Bürkel, 1984). Around the British Isles, it is most abundant in shallow waters close to rocky shores in the Irish Sea and English Channel (Ellis et al., 2005). The eggcases reported to the Great Eggcase Hunt were predominantly from along the southern and western coasts of England and Wales. Material examined. Fifty-eight eggcases were examined. Of these, the majority (n = 45) were from the Great Eggcase Hunt (submitted mainly from southwestern coasts of England). Others were collected during trawl surveys in the Irish Sea (n = 4), examined from museum collections (n = 8; BMNH 1927.3.11.1–4; BMNH 1910.1.18.2 labelled incorrectly as Scyllium canicula; BMNH 1940.4.2.1 labelled incorrectly as Scyliorhinus canicula; BMNH 2008.10.8.3; BMNH 89.2.1.4496) and from a public aquarium (n = 1). Description. The eggcase of ... : Published as part of Gordon, Cat A., Hood, Ali R. & Ellis, Jim R., 2016, Descriptions and revised key to the eggcases of the skates (Rajiformes: Rajidae) and catsharks (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) of the British Isles, pp. 255-280 in Zootaxa 4150 (3) on pages 272-274, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4150.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/272101 ...