Oxynotus centrina ( Linnaeus, 1758 )

Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, Zootaxa 4947 (1), pp. 1-127 : 33

Oxynotus centrina ( Linnaeus, 1758)

Angular Rough Shark

Squalus centrina Linnaeus, 1758: 233 . Holotype: Unknown. Type locality: “Habitat in mari Mediterranao” [Mediterranean Sea].

Local synonymy: Oxynotus centrina: Barnard, 1949: 970 ; Smith, 1965: 513, fig. 54a; Penrith, 1969: 60; Compagno, 1984a: 127, fig.; Bass et al., 1986: 59, fig. 5.21; Compagno et al., 1989: 20, pl.; Compagno, 1999: 115; Compagno et al., 2005: 123, fig., pl. 13; Ebert et al., 2013 a: 163, fig., pl. 16; Ebert, 2015: 101, fig. 116; Ebert & Mostada, 2015: 16, fig.; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 145; Compagno, 2016: 1203; Weigmann, 2016: 899. Oxynotus sp.: Bass et al., 1976: 8, fig. 5. Oxynotus shubnikovi Myagkov, 1986: 171 , fig. 59; Compagno et al., 1991: 72.

South Africa voucher material: SAM 22507 .

South Africa distribution: A very rare species in South African waters known from a specimen off Cape Town (WC) ( Barnard, 1949).

Remarks: Myagkov (1986) named a new species O. shubnikovi from northern Namibia, but a review of the available regional material found no distinct characteristics to separate it from the European O. centrina .

Conservation status: VU (2007).