Callorhinchus capensis Duméril, 1865

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 : 102

Callorhinchus capensis Duméril, 1865

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Callorhynchus capensis Duméril, 1865: 695 , fig. 5, pl. 13. Syntypes: MNHN A-7981 (1), 4294 (1), plus 1 probably lost. Type locality: Cape of Good Hope , South Africa.

Local synonymy: Chimaera callorynchus: Linnaeus,1758:236 (in part:“ Habitat in Mari Aethiopico ”). Callorhynchus antarcticus : Bleeker, 1860b: 57; Gilchrist, 1902: 162; Thompson, 1914: 167; Gilchrist & Thompson, 1916: 290; von Bonde, 1923: 5. Callorhynchus capensis : Garman, 1904: 271, figs. 5–6, pl. 6; Garman, 1911: 99; Barnard, 1925: 96, fig. 6, pl. 5; Fowler, 1941: 507; Barnard, 1947: 31, fig. 2, pl. 5; Smith, 1949a: 77, fig. 95; Smith, 1965: 77, fig. 95; Smith & Smith, 1966: 35, fig. Callorhinchus capensis: Compagno, 1986: 147 , fig. 34.1; Compagno et al., 1989: 120, pl.; Compagno et al., 1991: 109; Freer & Griffiths, 1993: 63; Compagno, 1999: 120; Heemstra & Heemstra, 2004: 90; Didier et al., 2012: 100; Mann, 2013: 7; NPOA, 2013: 63; da Silva et al., 2015: 246; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 148; Walovich et al., 2015: 163; Didier, 2016: 1445; Weigmann, 2016: 1000.

South Africa voucher material: SAIAB 3956, SAIAB 8263, SAIAB 9785, SAIAB 9786, SAIAB 11020, SAIAB 11078, SAIAB 11936, SAIAB 12919, SAIAB 12993, SAIAB 16195, SAIAB 16727, SAIAB 19819, SAIAB 19820, SAIAB 19824, SAIAB 21886, SAIAB 21887, SAIAB 25195, SAIAB 25196, SAIAB 25197, SAIAB 25198, SAIAB 25199, SAIAB 25200, SAIAB 25201, SAIAB 25202, SAIAB 25203, SAIAB 25204, SAIAB 25205, SAIAB 25206, SAIAB 25207, SAIAB 25208, SAIAB 25209, SAIAB 26309, SAIAB 34589, SAIAB 34590, SAIAB 34591, SAIAB 35300, SAIAB 35888, SAIAB 38256, SAIAB 38681, SAIAB 40959, SAIAB 43842, SAIAB 48665, SAIAB 200716.

South African distribution: The Orange River (NC) to Durban (KZN).

Remarks: A regional endemic to southern Africa, its range extends into southern Namibia. This is one of the most common inshore chondrichthyan species between the Orange River and Cape Agulhas ( Compagno et al., 1991).

Conservation status: LC (2020).