Chlamydoselachus africana Ebert & Compagno, 2009

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 : 17-18

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4614584

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scientific name

Chlamydoselachus africana Ebert & Compagno, 2009
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Chlamydoselachus africana Ebert & Compagno, 2009 View in CoL

Southern African Frilled Shark

Chlamydoselachus africana Ebert & Compagno, 2009: 3 View in CoL View Cited Treatment , Figs. 1 View FIGURE 1 –4, 6. Holotype: SAM 31028. Type locality: Off Cunene River   GoogleMaps , Namibia, 19°59'S, 11°48'E, southeastern Atlantic.

Local synonymy: Chlamydoselachus anguineus: Smith, 1951: 87 View in CoL ; Smith, 1965: 511, fig. 3b; Smith, 1967a: 105, pls. 19–23; Bass et al., 1975d: 16, fig. 9, pl. 6; Compagno, 1984a: 14, fig. (in part); Bass, 1986: 47, fig. 3.1; Compagno et al., 1989: 20, pl.; Compagno et al., 1991: 51. Chlamydoselachus View in CoL sp. A: Ebert, 1990: 217, figs. 3.1, 3.12 (in part); Compagno, 1999: 114; Compagno et al., 2005: 66, fig., pl. 1. Chlamydoselachus View in CoL sp. nov.: Compagno, 1999: 114. Chlamydoselachus africana: Barnett et al., 2012: 967 View in CoL ; Ebert, 2013: 33–34; Ebert et al., 2013 a: 64, fig., pl. 1; Ebert & Mostarda, 2013: 9; NPOA, 2013: 37; Ebert, 2015: 36–40, fig. 34; da Silva et al., 2015: 246; Ebert & Mostarda, 2015: 9, fig.; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 144; Compagno, 2016: 1144; Weigmann, 2016: 887.

South Africa voucher material: None. All known specimens caught in South African waters were discarded.

South Africa distribution: South African range poorly-defined with records off the Cape Peninsula (WC) ( R. W. Leslie, formerly, Department of Agriculture , Forestry and Fisheries [ DAFF], Cape Town, South Africa , pers. comm.), the EC, and KZN ( Ebert & Compagno, 2009) .

Remarks: An apparent southern African endemic presently confirmed from southern Angola, Namibia, and South Africa. A single specimen was reported by Smith (1951) to have been caught off the Port Alfred Pier (EC), but the specimen was not retained. Since no specimens have been captured and examined since the description of C. africana , all South African literature records of frilled sharks are attributed to this species for now. Records of frilled sharks from seamounts off Mozambique should also be carefully examined ( Ebert, 2013).

Conservation status: LC (2019).

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Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Elasmobranchii

Order

Hexanchiformes

Family

Chlamydoselachidae

Genus

Chlamydoselachus

Loc

Chlamydoselachus africana Ebert & Compagno, 2009

Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M. 2021
2021
Loc

Chlamydoselachus africana

Ebert D. A. & Compagno, L. J. V. 2009: 3
2009
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