Scyliorhinus

 ( Extant Albian First Appearances ) 

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. Fossilworks: Scyliorhinus at Paleobiology Database.Carrier, J. C.; Musick, J. A. & Heithaus, M. R. (2004). Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives.

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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 (Carl Linnaeus, 1758) (small-spotted catshark)
• Scyliorhinus capensis (J. P. Müller & Henle, 1838) (yellowspotted catshark)
• Scyliorhinus cervigoni Claude Maurin & Marc 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 Stewart Springer, 1966 (whitesaddled catshark)
• Scyliorhinus meadi Stewart Springer, 1966 (blotched catshark)
• Scyliorhinus retifer (Samuel Garman, 1881) (chain catshark)
• Scyliorhinus stellaris (Carl Linnaeus, 1758) (nursehound)
• Scyliorhinus tokubee Shirai Shigeru, Souichi Hagiwara & Kazuhiro Nakaya, 1992 (Izu catshark)
• Scyliorhinus torazame (Shigeho Tanaka, 1908) (cloudy catshark)
• Scyliorhinus torrei Howell-Rivero, 1936 (dwarf catshark)
• Scyliorhinus ugoi K. D. A. Soares, Gadig & U. L. Gomes, 2015 (dark freckled catshark)

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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 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

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