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.[2] [3]
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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 , 2016[4]
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) [4]
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) [5]
Fossil of Scyliorhinus elongatus from the Cretaceous of Lebanon
†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
Soares, 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.