Centroscymnus coelolepis Barbosa du Bocage & de Brito Capello, 1864: 263 Centroscymnus fuscus : Gilchrist & von Bonde, 1924: 2 Centrophorus squamosus : Hulley, 1971: 267 C. fuscus Centroscymnus coelolepis : Compagno, 1984a: 55 Compagno et al ., 2005 An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa Ebert, David A. Wintner, Sabine P. Kyne, Peter M. Zootaxa 2021 2021-03-17 4947 1 1 127 SBFL 455296 Barbosa du Bocage & de Brito Capello, 1864 Barbosa du Bocage & de Brito Capello 1864 [151,991,150,177] Elasmobranchii Somniosidae Centroscymnus Animalia Squaliformes 30 31 Chordata species coelolepis      Centroscymnus coelolepis  Barbosa du Bocage & de Brito Capello, 1864: 263, fig. 4. Holotype: Museu Bocage, Lisbon, MB T113, destroyed in fire. Type locality: off Portugal, northeastern Atlantic.  Local synonymy:?  Centroscymnus fuscus: Gilchrist & von Bonde, 1924: 2(off St. HelenaBay, South Africa, SE Atlantic); Barnard, 1925: 51; Smith, 1949a: 58; Smith, 1965: 58.  Centrophorus squamosus: Hulley, 1971: 267, fig. 1; Bass et al., 1976: 28(in part, for synonymy of  C. fuscuswith this species).  Centroscymnus coelolepis: Compagno, 1984a: 55, fig.; Compagno et al., 1989: 32, pl.; Compagno et al., 1991: 56; Ebert et al., 1992: 603; Compagno, 1999: 115;  Compagno et al., 2005: 112, fig., pl. 10; Ebert, 2013: 90, fig. 127; Ebert et al., 2013a: 151, fig., pl. 13; Ebert & Mostada, 2013: 35, fig.; Ebert, 2015: 87, fig. 104; Ebert & Mostada, 2015: 31, fig.; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 144; White et al., 2015: 214; Weigmann et al., 2016b: 642; Compagno, 2016: 1189; Weigmann, 2016: 899.    South Africavoucher material: SAIAB25727, SAIAB26272, SAIAB26273, SAIAB26417, SAIAB27601.   South Africadistribution: Common off the west coast from the Orange River (NC) to off CapeAgulhas (WC), but also extending to the EC. It has not been found off KZN, but likely occurs there since it has been caught off southern Mozambique and is common on the Walters Shoal ( Weigmann et al., 2016).   Remarks:  Centroscymnus fuscuswas described from a specimen taken off St. HelenaBay and was recognized as a valid species until Hulley (1971)and Bass et al. (1976)synonymized it with  Centrophorus squamosus. However, details of the original description by Gilchrist and von Bonde (1924)suggest that  C. fuscusmay be a synonym of  C. coelolepisrather than  C. squamosus.  Centroscymnus coelolepisis common in the area off St. HelenaBay where the type specimen was caught, while  C. squamosusis relatively uncommon in that area. Unfortunately,  C. fuscuswas never illustrated and the holotypeis lost.  Conservation status: NT (2020). 3072574479 [462,1048,222,249] MB Portugal Museu Bocage northeastern Atlantic. 30 31 T113 1 Lisboa holotype