Chilomycterus spinosus mauretanicus (Le Danois, 1954)

Leis, Jeffrey M., 2006, Nomenclature and distribution of the species of the porcupinefish family Diodontidae (Pisces, Teleostei), Memoirs of Museum Victoria 63 (1), pp. 77-90 : 83-84

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.24199/j.mmv.2006.63.10
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E48787-FF80-FF8C-FCD9-5DC4FD38FEB1
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scientific name	Chilomycterus spinosus mauretanicus (Le Danois, 1954)
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Chilomycterus spinosus mauretanicus (Le Danois, 1954) View in CoL

Atinga atinga mauretanicus Le Danois, 1954: 2354 View in CoL ( Mauritania, Gulf of Guinea)*

*extant types

Based on examination of 21 lots from throughout the range, including the syntypes. This nominal species is considered a subspecies of C. spinosus (Linnaeus) because only minor colour differences separate it from its western Atlantic counterpart. Le Danois (1954, ref. 6451) briefly described this nominal species, apparently inadvertently, in a paper on sexual dimorphism in diodontids, then redescribed it in 1959 (ref. 12003) and provided more information – some of it conflicting – in 1962 (ref. 21440). See Leis and Bauchot (1984, ref. 12539) for information on the status of the types.

Distribution. Eastern Atlantic. From central Angola to Canary Is. and perhaps Portugal.