Harriotta raleighana Goode & Bean, 1895

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 : 104-105

Harriotta raleighana Goode & Bean, 1895

Narrownose Ghostshark

Harriotta raleighana Goode & Bean, 1895: 472 , pl. 19. Lectotype: USNM 35520, established in caption to pl. 19, p. 3234 in Jordan & Evermann, 1900. Type locality: Northwestern Atlantic, Gulf Stream, 39°37'45''N, 71°18'45''W.

Local synonymy: Harriotta raleighana: Shcherbachev, 1978: 7 ; Compagno, 1986: 146, fig. 33.1; Compagno et al., 1989: 122, pl.; Compagno et al., 1990: 202, fig. 1; Compagno et al., 1991: 114; Compagno, 1999: 120; Didier et al., 2012: 100; NPOA, 2013: 62; Ebert, 2014: 100, figs. 160–161; da Silva et al., 2015: 247; Ebert, 2015: 200, fig. 230; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 148; Walovich et al., 2015: 163; Weigmann, 2016: 1005.

South Africa voucher material: SAIAB and SAM several uncatalogued specimens.

South African distribution: The Orange River (NC) to Doring Bay (WC) .

Remarks: A wide-ranging species, it is confirmed from the west coast of South Africa but likely has a much wider range.

Conservation status: LC (2016).