Squalus clarkae Pfleger & Grubbs & Cotton & Daly-Engel 2018, sp. nov. ...

• Published in: Biology
• Main Authors: Pfleger, Mariah O., Grubbs, R. Dean, Cotton, Charles F., Daly-Engel, Toby S.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Elasmobranchii; Squaliformes; Squalidae; Squalus; Squalus clarkae; Daly; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5966645; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5966645

Squalus clarkae sp. nov. Gulf Dogfish/Genie’s Dogfish Description: Morphology and meristics. Squalus clarkae sp. nov. is a relatively large dogfish shark with a fusiform body, short head, and an interdorsal space ranging from 24.6% to 25.8% of TL. Head length is 21.2– 21.9% TL, and head width measures 1.08–1.2 times width at the mouth and 1.73–1.8 times width at the nostrils. Head height is about half the length of the head. Pre-vent length is 50.1–51.1% of the TL. S. clarkae sp. nov. is relatively short snouted, with a prenarial length 0.64–0.69 times mouth width and 1.32–1.59 times eye length. Interorbital space is equal to that of the mouth width, and prenarial length is 0.52–0.55 times preoral length. Eye length is 1.60–1.88 times eye height. Spiracle length is 1.0–1.2% of the TL of the animal. Fifth gill slit height is slightly larger than (1.2–1.4 times) first gill slit height. Mouth width is 0.78–0.82 times the pre-oral length. Innernostril labial furrow space is 1.54–1.89 times labial furrow length, ... : Published as part of Pfleger, Mariah O., Grubbs, R. Dean, Cotton, Charles F. & Daly-Engel, Toby S., 2018, Squalus clarkae sp. nov., a new dogfish shark from the Northwest Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, with comments on the Squalus mitsukurii species complex, pp. 101-119 in Zootaxa 4444 (2) on pages 104-116, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4444.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1309512 ...