Mustelus mosis Hemprich & Ehrenberg 1899

• Main Authors: Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P., Kyne, Peter M.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
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• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Elasmobranchii; Carcharhiniformes; Triakidae; Mustelus; Mustelus mosis; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4614765; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/039287A1955EFFB6CFF75CAFFDE821E7

Mustelus mosis Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1899 Hardnose Houndshark Mustelus mosis Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1899: 8, pl. 7 (fig. 3 + a–d). Syntypes: ZMB 4501 (1). Type locality: Red Sea. Local synonymy : Mustelus mosis : Bass et al ., 1986: 82, fig. 9.26; Compagno, 1988a: 223; Compagno et al ., 1989: 58, pl.; Compagno, 1999: 119; Heemstra & Heemstra, 2004: 64; Compagno et al ., 2005: 275, fig., pl. 48; Ebert et al ., 2013 a: 421, fig., pl. 58; NPOA, 2013: 44; da Silva et al ., 2015: 248; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 145; Weigmann, 2016: 885. South Africa voucher material : SAIAB 6229, SAIAB 7979, SAIAB 9499, SAIAB 10739, SAIAB 19387. South African distribution : KZN from about Durban to the border with Mozambique. Remarks : Van der Elst (1981) tentatively identified this species as Mustelus canis (non Mitchill), a western North Atlantic species, but Bass et al . (1986) subsequently identified it as M. mosis . Although its range in South African waters is only from about Durban north to Kosi Bay, it appears to have a very large regional range, occurring into the northern Indian Ocean (assuming it is the same species). A detailed revision of the WIO Mustelus is needed to clarify the status of this and other species in the region. Conservation status : NT (2019). 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 56-57, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4614567