Centrophoridae Bleeker 1859

• Main Authors: Carneiro, Miguel, Martins, Rogélia, Landi, Monica, Costa, Filipe O.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Elasmobranchii; Squaliformes; Centrophoridae; Muñoz; Pacific; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3867950; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3867950

Family Centrophoridae Muñoz-Chapuli & Ramo (1989) reviewed the systematics of Centrophorus from the eastern North Atlantic and recognized four different species: C. squamosus, C. granulosus, C. lusitanicus and C. niaukang. However, recent studies indicated that C. niaukang may be restricted to the western Indo- Pacific (Ebert & Stehmann 2013). The taxonomic arrangement of Centrophorus species is provisional, and a comprehensive systematic review of Centrophorus, including detailed descriptions of external morphological, anatomical and molecular characters (Muñoz–Chapuli & Ramo 1989), are necessary both to elucidate the variation and interrelationships of Centrophorus species and to rectify several outstanding problems within the genus.According to Ebert & Stehmann (2013), the species Centrophorus uyato Rafinesque, 1810, is not actually a Centrophorus species, but rather a Squalus of uncertain identity. Published as part of Carneiro, Miguel, Martins, Rogélia, Landi, Monica & Costa, Filipe O., 2014, Updated checklist of marine fishes (Chordata: Craniata) from Portugal and the proposed extension of the Portuguese continental shelf, pp. 1-73 in European Journal of Taxonomy 73 on page 13, DOI:10.5852/ejt.2014.73, http://zenodo.org/record/3866515