Pentanchidae Smith 1912 ...

• Main Authors: Biscoito, Manuel, Ribeiro, Cláudia, Freitas, Mafalda
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Chondrichthyes; Carcharhiniformes; Pentanchidae; Lowe; Nakaya; Iceland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5969933; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5969933

Family Pentanchidae * Apristurus laurussonii (Saemundsson, 1922) —No common name in Madeira; Iceland catshark or Madeira catshark Cadenat & Maul 1966: 60 | Compagno 1984b: 270 | Quéro 1984c: 96–97 | Cadenat & Blache 1981: 186 | Sanches 1986: 63 | Lloris et al. 1991: 221 (as Apristurus maderensis) Carneiro et al. 2014: 11. Distribution in Macaronesia. Madeira, Azores (Santos et al. 1997; Saldanha & Biscoito 1997; Porteiro et al. 2010; Carneiro et al. 2014) and Canary Islands (Brito et al. 2002; Brito Hernández & Sancho Rafel 2003). Remarks. Nakaya & Sato (1998) considered A. maderensis Cadenat & Maul (1966) as a junior synonym of A. laurussonii. Two formalin preserved specimens in MMF collections: MMF 18750, the holotype, collected in 1961 in a longline of the black scabbard fish, Aphanopus spp. and MMF 36797, collected more recently in 2005 at Porto Santo. * Galeus melastomus Rafinesque, 1810 —Leitão-do-mar; Blackmouth catshark Lowe 1838: 194 ( as Scyllium artedi) Lowe 1843–1860: ... : Published as part of Biscoito, Manuel, Ribeiro, Cláudia & Freitas, Mafalda, 2018, Annotated checklist of the fishes of the archipelago of Madeira (NE Atlantic): I-Chondrichthyes, pp. 459-494 in Zootaxa 4429 (3) on page 468, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4429.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1285016 ...