Somniosus Lesueur, 1818

Ebert, David A., White, William T., Ho, Hsuan-Ching, Last, Peter R., Nakaya, Kazuhiro, Séret, Bernard, Straube, Nicolas, Naylor, Gavin J. P. & De Carvalho, Marcelo R., 2013, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Taiwan, Zootaxa 3752 (1), pp. 279-386 : 296

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3752.1.17

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3E2987DC-CB18-FFC9-FF64-017AFDE37515

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scientific name

Somniosus Lesueur, 1818
status

 

Genus Somniosus Lesueur, 1818 View in CoL View at ENA

Sleeper Sharks / ḗḛé

Somniosus Lesueur, 1818: 222 View in CoL . Type species: Somniosus brevipinna, Lesueur, 1818 View in CoL by monotypy; synonym of Somniosus microcephalus ( Bloch & Schneider, 1801) View in CoL .

Somniosus pacificus Bigelow & Schroeder, 1944 View in CoL

Pacific Sleeper Shark / ẊǬờḗḛ

Somniosus pacificus Bigelow & Schroeder, 1944: 35 View in CoL . Holotype: MCZ 1103-S (piece of skin and part of jaw), juvenile male, 191 cm (75") TL, Sagami Sea, Japan. Holotype is based on the specimen described and illustrated as brevipinna View in CoL by Garman, 1913: 240, pl. 15, fig. 1–3.

Local synonymy: Somniosus pacificus: Wang & Yang, 2004: 229 View in CoL , fig. 2.

Taiwan voucher material: (2 spec.) NMMB-P 15786 (tissue accession GN10248 ), Cheng-gong , Taitung, 23 Dec 2010 ; NMMB-P 15714 (tissue accession GN10249 ), Cheng-gong , Taitung, 2 Oct 2011 .

Remarks: A rare bycatch by local deep-sea fisheries.

Conservation status: Data Deficient.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Elasmobranchii

Order

Squaliformes

Family

Somniosidae

Loc

Somniosus Lesueur, 1818

Ebert, David A., White, William T., Ho, Hsuan-Ching, Last, Peter R., Nakaya, Kazuhiro, Séret, Bernard, Straube, Nicolas, Naylor, Gavin J. P. & De Carvalho, Marcelo R. 2013
2013
Loc

Somniosus pacificus

Bigelow, H. B. & Schroeder, W. C. 1944: 35
Garman, S. 1913: 240
1944
Loc

Somniosus

Lesueur, C. A. 1818: 222
1818
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