Scyliorhinus
{{Short description|Genus of sharks}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|104|0|ref={{cite journal |last=Sepkoski |first=J. |author-link = Jack Sepkoski |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Chondrichthyes entry) |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=363 |pages=1–560 |date=2002 |url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=575&rank=class |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120510170834/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=575&rank=class |archive-date = 2012-05-10}}}} Late Albian to present
| image = Acuario Sevilla crias alitan.JPG
| image_caption = Nursehound (Scyliorhinus stellaris)
| taxon = Scyliorhinus
| authority = Blainville, 1816
| type_species = Squalus canicula
| type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1758
}}
Scyliorhinus is a genus of catsharks in the family Scyliorhinidae. This genus is known in the fossil records from the Cretaceous period, late Albian age to the Pliocene epoch.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=34663 Fossilworks: Scyliorhinus at Paleobiology Database.]Carrier, J. C.; Musick, J. A. & Heithaus, M. R. (2004). [https://books.google.com/books?id=VEM9tZ_kpfUC&dq=Scyliorhinus+fossils&pg=PA49 Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives].
Species
There are currently 16 recognized species in this genus:
- Scyliorhinus boa Goode & T. H. Bean, 1896 (boa catshark)
- Scyliorhinus cabofriensis K. D. A. Soares, U. L. Gomes & M. R. de Carvalho, 2016Soares, K.D.A., Gomes, U.L. & De Carvalho, M.R. (2016): Taxonomic review of catsharks of the Scyliorhinus haeckelii group, with the description of a new species (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae). Zootaxa, 4066 (5): 501-534.
- Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758) (small-spotted catshark)
- Scyliorhinus capensis (J. P. Müller & Henle, 1838) (yellowspotted catshark)
- Scyliorhinus cervigoni Maurin & M. Bonnet, 1970 (West African catshark)
- Scyliorhinus comoroensis L. J. V. Compagno, 1988 (Comoro catshark)
- Scyliorhinus garmani (Fowler, 1934) (brownspotted catshark)
- Scyliorhinus hachijoensis (Ito, Fujii, Nohara & Tanaka, 2022) (cinder cloudy catshark)
- Scyliorhinus haeckelii (A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1907) (freckled catshark)
- Scyliorhinus hesperius S. Springer, 1966 (whitesaddled catshark)
- Scyliorhinus meadi S. Springer, 1966 (blotched catshark)
- Scyliorhinus retifer (Garman, 1881) (chain catshark)
- Scyliorhinus stellaris (Linnaeus, 1758) (nursehound)
- Scyliorhinus tokubee Shirai, S. Hagiwara & Nakaya, 1992 (Izu catshark)
- Scyliorhinus torazame (S. Tanaka (I), 1908) (cloudy catshark)
- Scyliorhinus torrei Howell-Rivero, 1936 (dwarf catshark)
- Scyliorhinus ugoi K. D. A. Soares, Gadig & U. L. Gomes, 2015 (dark freckled catshark) {{cite journal |author1=Soares, K. D. A. |author2=Gadig, O. B. F. |author3=Gomes, U. L. |year=2015 |title=Scyliorhinus ugoi, a new species of catshark from Brazil (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) |journal=Zootaxa |volume=3937 |issue=2 |pages=347–361 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3937.2.6 |pmid=25947474 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274084482}}
Extinct species
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- †Scyliorhinus ambliatlanticus Lautiro Mora, 1999
- †Scyliorhinus angustus (Münster, 1843)
- †Scyliorhinus antiquus (Agassiz, 1843)
- †Scyliorhinus arambourgi Cappetta, 1980
- †Scyliorhinus arlingtonensis Cappetta & Case, 1999
- †Scyliorhinus biddlei Halter, 1995
- †Scyliorhinus biformis Reinecke, 2014
- †Scyliorhinus bloti Cappetta, 1980
- †Scyliorhinus brumarivulensis Underwood & Ward, 2008
- †Scyliorhinus cepaeformis Halter, 1990
- †Scyliorhinus coupatezi Herman, 1974
- †Scyliorhinus dubius (Woodward, 1889)
- †Scyliorhinus elongatus (Davis, 1887)
- †Scyliorhinus entomodon Noubhani & Cappetta, 1997
- †Scyliorhinus fossilis (Leriche, 1927)
- †Scyliorhinus ivagrantae Case & Cappetta, 1997
- †Scyliorhinus joleaudi Cappetta, 1970
- †Scyliorhinus kannenbergi Leder, 2015
- †Scyliorhinus kasenoi Karasawa, 1989
- †Scyliorhinus luypaertsi Halter, 1995
- †Scyliorhinus malembeensis Dartevelle & Casier, 1959
- †Scyliorhinus monsaugustus Guinot, Underwood, Cappetta & Ward, 2013
- †Scyliorhinus moosi Herman, 1975
- †Scyliorhinus muelleri Guinot, Underwood, Cappetta & Ward, 2013
- †Scyliorhinus musteliformis Herman, 1977
- †Scyliorhinus ptychtus Noubhani & Cappetta, 1997
- †Scyliorhinus reyndersi Halter, 1995
- †Scyliorhinus suelstorfensis Reinecke, 2014
- †Scyliorhinus sulcidens Noubhani & Cappetta, 1997
- †Scyliorhinus taylorensis Cappetta & Case, 1999
- †Scyliorhinus tensleepensis Case, 1987
- †Scyliorhinus trifolius Adnet, 2006
- †Scyliorhinus wardi Halter, 1990
- †Scyliorhinus weemsi, 2022
- †Scyliorhinus woodwardi Cappetta, 1976
References
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