CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Chordata (phylum)  »  Elasmobranchii (class)  »  Squaliformes (order)  »  Somniosidae (family)

CAAB Code:	37 020013 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Scymnodon macracanthus   (Regan, 1906)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes Photographic Index of Australian Fishes (PIAF) Image by: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA) Rights: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection Family: 37 20 Somniosidae (Sleeper Sharks) - show full list Standard Name (AS5300): Plunket's Dogfish Common Names List: Plunket's dogfish Plunkets dogfish Plunket's shark roughskin dogfish Organism Type: a dogfish Synonyms: Scymnodon plunketi Centroscymnus plunketi Proscymnodon plunketi Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Slope Demersal (200-2000m) Parent Codes: 37 020916     Scymnodon spp. Previous Codes (if any): 020013, 37 020503, 020503, 37 020016, 020016

Distribution map: View detailed map or click on map to see same. Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2008-11-19. Occurrence locations [18] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records Get expert distribution shapefile Expected species depth range is from 240 to 1550 m.

Taxon Notes:	Vaz (2021) revised the taxonomic status and validity of Scymnodon macracanthus (Regan, 1906) and Scymnodon plunketi (Waite, 1910) in light of new material from the Southern Pacific and Indian Oceans. Despite being historically accepted as distinct taxa, recent studies suggested the possibility that these species could represent a single taxon. Morphometrics, meristics and morphology of dermal denticles show that S. plunketi is a junior synonym of S. macracanthus. Previous distinctive characters proved to be the result of intraspecific variation.
Scientific Name Notes:	White et al 2014 (Ich Res) placed Proscymnodon into the synonomy of Scymnodon.
Common/Standard Name Notes:	"Roughskin dogfish" is the marketing name for this species
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.name:5d936d21-eae5-46f2-81e8-b48df26efc14 Name status: synonym    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia FoA 2007 View at FoA ITIS 160734 View at ITIS WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:299103 Name status: unaccepted    Checked on: 2016-05-11 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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