Somniosus antarcticus Whitley 1939 ...

• Main Authors: Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P., Kyne, Peter M.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Elasmobranchii; Squaliformes; Somniosidae; Somniosus; Somniosus antarcticus; Zameus; Antarc*; antarcticus; Macquarie Island; Somniosus microcephalus
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4614629; https://zenodo.org/record/4614629

Somniosus antarcticus Whitley, 1939 Southern Sleeper Shark Somniosus antarcticus Whitley, 1939: 242. Holotype (unique): tooth and skin samples (location unknown). Type locality: Macquarie Island, south of Tasmania, Australia. Species described from a drawing in Waite, 1916: 51, fig. 10. Local synonymy : Somniosus microcephalus : Bass et al ., 1976: 43; Compagno, 1984a: 103, fig.; Bass et al ., 1986: 60, fig. 5.23; Compagno et al ., 1989: 32, pl. Somniosus cf. microcephalus : Compagno et al ., 1991: 66. Somniosus antarcticus : Compagno, 1999: 115; Yano et al ., 2004: 369; Compagno et al ., 2005: 117, fig., pl. 12; Ebert, 2013: 98, fig. 137; Ebert et al ., 2013 a: 156, fig., pl. 15; Ebert & Dando, 2014: 89, fig.; Ebert, 2015: 95, fig. 112; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 144; Weigmann, 2016: 900. South Africa voucher material : SAIAB 203925, SAM 23747, SAM 32671, SAM 34721, SAM 35443. South Africa distribution : Known from a few specimens taken between Cape Columbine and Saldanha Bay, and from southwest of ... : Published as part of Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 4947 (1) on pages 32-33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4614567 ...