''Scyliorhinus'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

catshark Catsharks are ground sharks of the family Scyliorhinidae. They are the largest family of sharks with around 160 species placed in 17 genera. Although they are generally known as catsharks, some species can also be called dogfish due to previous ...

s in the

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Scyliorhinidae. This genus is known in the

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records from the

Cretaceous The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era, as well as the longest. At around 79 million years, it is the longest geological period of ...

period, late

Albian The Albian is both an age of the geologic timescale and a stage in the stratigraphic column. It is the youngest or uppermost subdivision of the Early/Lower Cretaceous Epoch/ Series. Its approximate time range is 113.0 ± 1.0 Ma to 100.5 ± 0 ...

age to the

Pliocene The Pliocene ( ; also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58''Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives''

Species

There are currently 16 recognized species in this genus: * ''

Scyliorhinus boa The boa catshark (''Scyliorhinus boa'') is a catshark of the family Scyliorhinidae. It is found on the continental shelves and insular slopes of the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, between latitudes 20° N and 9° N, at depths between ...

'' Goode & T. H. Bean, 1896 (boa catshark) * ''

Scyliorhinus cabofriensis ''Scyliorhinus cabofriensis'' is a species of catshark of the family Scyliorhinidae. It is found in Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro southeastern Brazil. This species is distinguished from all southwestern Atlantic congeners by its color pattern, cla ...

'' 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 ''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.Carrier, J. C.; Musick, J. A. & Heithaus, M. R. (2004)''Biolo ...

'' (

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, 1758) (small-spotted catshark) * ''

Scyliorhinus capensis The yellowspotted catshark (''Scyliorhinus capensis'') is a rare catshark of the family Scyliorhinidae. It is found in the southeast Atlantic, from Lüderitz, Namibia to central Natal, South Africa, between latitudes 0° and 37° S. It can gro ...

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, 1838) (yellowspotted catshark) * ''

Scyliorhinus cervigoni The West African catshark (''Scyliorhinus cervigoni'') is a catshark of the family Scyliorhinidae. It is found in the eastern Atlantic between latitudes 20° N and 17° S, at depths between 45 and 500 m. It can grow up to a length of . At one ...

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& M. Bonnet, 1970 (West African catshark) * ''

Scyliorhinus comoroensis The Comoro catshark (''Scyliorhinus comoroensis'') is a rare catshark of the family Scyliorhinidae. The holotype and only specimen was taken from the Comoros Islands in the Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's ...

'' L. J. V. Compagno, 1988 (Comoro catshark) * ''

Scyliorhinus garmani The brownspotted catshark (''Scyliorhinus garmani'') is a rare catshark of the family Scyliorhinidae, found in the Indo-West Pacific between latitudes 11° N and 12° S. Its juvenile length is about 38 cm, but its adult size is mostly unk ...

'' ( Fowler, 1934) (brownspotted catshark) * ''

Scyliorhinus hachijoensis The cinder cloudy catshark (''Scyliorhinus hachijoensis'') is a species of catshark from the Pacific Ocean; all specimens identified have been from the area around the Izu Islands, Japan. The species is a close relative of the cloudy catshark ...

'' (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'' (

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, 1881) (chain catshark) * ''

Scyliorhinus stellaris The nursehound (''Scyliorhinus stellaris''), also known as the large-spotted dogfish, greater spotted dogfish or bull huss, is a species of catshark, belonging to the family Scyliorhinidae, found in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. It is general ...

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, 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)

Extinct species

* †'' 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 ''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.Carrier, J. C.; Musick, J. A. & Heithaus, M. R. (2004)''Biology of ...

'' 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 ''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.Carrier, J. C.; Musick, J. A. & Heithaus, M. R. (2004)''Biology of ...

'' 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

{{Taxonbar, from=Q141030 Extant Albian first appearances Shark genera Taxa named by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville