Squalus mahia Viana, Lisher, & de Carvalho, 2017

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 : 23

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7F3B4794-65CF-4691-A330-78A423F2606F

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4614606

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039287A1-957F-FF98-CFF7-5EEAFDEC26E1

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Plazi

scientific name

Squalus mahia Viana, Lisher, & de Carvalho, 2017
status

 

Squalus mahia Viana, Lisher, & de Carvalho, 2017 View in CoL

Malagasy Skinny Spurdog

Squalus mahia Viana, Lisher, & de Carvalho, 2017 : [5], figs 1–6a–b, 7. Holotype: SAIAB 189449 About SAIAB . Type locality: Off   GoogleMaps northern Madagascar, Western Indian Ocean, 15°24.14'S, 46°1.51'E.

Local synonymy: Squalus megalops: Bass et al., 1976 (in part): 10; Heemstra & Heemstra, 2004: 53 (description; southern Africa); Ebert, 2013 (in part): 53; Weigmann, 2016 (in part): 904. Squalus mahia: Viana & de Carvalho, 2018: 628 ; Viana, Lisher, & de Carvalho, 2018: 1787.

South Africa voucher material: Paratypes: SAIAB 25370 About SAIAB , SAIAB 186419 About SAIAB , SAIAB 186461 About SAIAB .

South Africa Distribution: Algoa Bay (EC) to KZN.

Remarks: The status of this species and its distribution along with other southern African “short-nose” Squalus species is need of taxonomic revisions.

Conservation status: DD (2020).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Elasmobranchii

Order

Squaliformes

Family

Squalidae

Genus

Squalus

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