Centrophorus moluccensis Bleeker, 1860a

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 : 24

publication ID

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4693686

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Centrophorus moluccensis Bleeker, 1860a
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Centrophorus moluccensis Bleeker, 1860a View in CoL View at ENA

Smallfin Gulper Shark

Centrophorus moluccensis Bleeker, 1860a: 3 View in CoL . Holotype: RMNH 7415 View Materials . Type locality: Ambon Island, Molucca Islands , Indonesia, southwestern Pacific.

Local synonymy: Atractophorus armatus View in CoL : Gilchrist, 1922b: 48, fig. 3, pl. 7 (original description, Natal, South Africa); Smith, 1949a: 57, fig. 47; Smith, 1965: 57, fig. 47. Centrophorus armatus: Smith, 1967b: 124 View in CoL , pl. 28. Centrophorus scalpratus: Bass et al., 1976: 29 View in CoL , fig. 21; Bass et al., 1986: 51, fig. 5.3. Centrophorus moluccensis: Compagno, 1984a: 40 View in CoL , fig.; Compagno et al., 1989: 24, pl.; Compagno, 1999: 114; Compagno et al., 2005: 85, fig., pl. 4; Ebert, 2013: 72, fig. 90; Ebert et al., 2013 a: 104, fig., pl. 6; Ebert & Mostarda, 2013: 25, fig.; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 144; Weigmann, 2016: 890.

South Africa voucher material: SAIAB 6006 [former ORI 2673], SAIAB 6009 [former ORI 1020].

South Africa distribution: Off Durban (KZN) and north to the border with Mozambique.

Remarks: First described as a new species ( Atractophorus armatus ) by Gilchrist (1922b), it has gone by several different scientific names in South Africa, but all are referable to C. moluccensis . This species was very common off northern KZN and southern Mozambique ( Bass et al., 1976).

Conservation status: VU (2020).

SAIAB

South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity

ORI

Ocean Research Institute

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Elasmobranchii

Order

Squaliformes

Family

Centrophoridae

Genus

Centrophorus

Loc

Centrophorus moluccensis Bleeker, 1860a

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

Centrophorus moluccensis

Bleeker, P. 1860: 3
1860
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