(ofScymnorhinus licha (Bonnaterre, 1788))Bonaparte, C.L. (1846). Catalogo metodico dei pesci europei. <em>Atti della Settima Adunanza degli Scienziati Italiani Sesta Riunione, Milano 7a Adunanza, Napoli.</em> Part 2: 1-95.[details]
Description Found on the outer continental and insular shelves and slopes, most commonly below 200 m. Primarily a solitary shark. Feeds...
Description Found on the outer continental and insular shelves and slopes, most commonly below 200 m. Primarily a solitary shark. Feeds mainly on bony fishes and also skates, other sharks (Galeus, Squalus, Etmopterus and Centrophorus), and also on squids, octopi, amphipods, isopods, shrimps, lobsters, polychaetes and siphonophores. Adults eat more crustaceans and sharks and less cephalopods than young. Ovoviviparous with 10 to 16 young in a litter. Quite common. [details]
Distribution from George's Bank, the east coast of Florida, Northern Gulf of Mexico, and off the southern Bahamas
Distribution from George's Bank, the east coast of Florida, Northern Gulf of Mexico, and off the southern Bahamas [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Dalatias licha (Bonnaterre, 1788). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=105910 on 2025-07-15
original description(ofScymnorhinus licha (Bonnaterre, 1788))Bonaparte, C.L. (1846). Catalogo metodico dei pesci europei. <em>Atti della Settima Adunanza degli Scienziati Italiani Sesta Riunione, Milano 7a Adunanza, Napoli.</em> Part 2: 1-95.[details]
original description(ofScymnorhinus phillippsi Whitley, 1931)Whitley, G. P. (1931). New names for Australian fishes. <em>Australian Zoologist.</em> v. 6 (pt 4): 310-334, Pls. 25-27.[details]
original description(ofDalatias sparophagus Rafinesque, 1810)Rafinesque, C. S. (1810). Caratteri di alcuni nuovi generi e nuove specie di animali e piante della sicilia, con varie osservazioni sopra i medisimi. <em>Per le stampe di Sanfilippo: Palermo, Italy.</em> Part 1 involves fishes, pp. [i-iv] 3-69 [70 blank], Part 2 with slightly different title, pp. ia-iva + 71-105 [106 blank]). Pls. 1-20., available online athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47825964[details]
basis of recordvan der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Ecology
ecology sourceLooby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online athttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4[details]
Other
context source (Deepsea)Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online athttp://www.iobis.org/[details]
context source (Bermuda)Clark, E.; Kristof, E. (1990). Deep-sea elasmobranchs observed from submersibles off Bermuda, Grand Cayman, and Freeport, Bahamas
In: Pratt, Jr., H. L., S. H. Gruber & T. Taniuchi (eds.),
Elasmobranchs as Living Resources: Advances in the Biology, Ecology, Systematics, and the Status of the Fisheries. NOAA Technical Report 90, 269-284[details]
additional sourceCollette, B. B., ; Klein-MacPhee, G. (2002). Bigelow and Schroeder's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine. <em>Smithsonian Institution Press.</em> 1-748.[details]
additional sourceMuller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online athttp://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf[details]
additional sourceMcEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.[details]
additional sourceLiu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceNijssen, H.; de Groot, S.J. (1987). De vissen van Nederland: systematische indeling, historisch overzicht, het ontstaan van de viskweek, uitheemse vissoorten, determineersleutels, beschrijvingen, afbeeldingen, literatuur, van alle in Nederlandse wateren voor komende zee- en zoetwatervissoorten [Fishes of the Netherlands: systematic classification, historical overview, origins of fish culture, non-indigenous species, determination keys, descriptions, drawings, literature references on all marine and freshwater fish species living in Dutch waters]. KNNV Uitgeverij: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5011-006-1. 224 pp. (look up in IMIS) page(s): 12 [details]
additional sourceBonnaterre, J. P. (1788). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature... Ichthyologie. <em>Panckoucke, Paris.</em> i-lvi + 1-215, Pls. A-B. 1-100., available online athttps://books.google.com/books?id=Z67NZ0_oObYC&pg=PR1 page(s): 12 [details]
additional sourceFroese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online athttps://www.fishbase.org[details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Description Found on the outer continental and insular shelves and slopes, most commonly below 200 m. Primarily a solitary shark. Feeds mainly on bony fishes and also skates, other sharks (Galeus, Squalus, Etmopterus and Centrophorus), and also on squids, octopi, amphipods, isopods, shrimps, lobsters, polychaetes and siphonophores. Adults eat more crustaceans and sharks and less cephalopods than young. Ovoviviparous with 10 to 16 young in a litter. Quite common. [details] Distribution from George's Bank, the east coast of Florida, Northern Gulf of Mexico, and off the southern Bahamas [details] Habitat benthic [details] Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]