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Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 105814

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Elasmobranchii (Class) > Neoselachii (Subclass) > Selachii (Infraclass) > Galeomorphi (Superorder) > Carcharhiniformes (Order) > Scyliorhinidae (Family) > Scyliorhinus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Scyliorhinus Blainville, 1816
Synonymised
taxa
  Catulus duhamelii Garman, 1913
Sciliorhinus caniculus (Linnaeus, 1758) (misspelling)
Scyliorhinus canicula albomaculata Pietschmann, 1906
Scyliorhinus caniculus (Linnaeus, 1758) (misspelling)
Scyllium acutidens Vaillant, 1888
Scyllium canicula (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
Scyllium spinacipellitum Vaillant, 1888
Squalus canicula Linnaeus, 1758 (basionym)
Squalus catulus Linnaeus, 1758
Squalus elegans Blainville, 1825
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100
page(s): 234 [details]


basis of record: van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Muller, 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]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]

additional source: Eschmeyer, W.: Catalog of fishes; California Academy of Sciences, department Ichtyology., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

additional source: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

from synonym: Gilson, G. (1921). Les poissons d'Ostende [The fishes of Ostend]. Société Anonyme belge d'Imprimerie: Bruxelles, Belgium. 110 pp. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Albanian mace deti  [details]
Albanian mica e detit  [details]
Albanian mice me pika  [details]
Basque katuarraina  [details]
Breton chienbrô  [details]
Breton kazh mor  [details]
Breton ki-rouz  [details]
Breton touill bihen  [details]
Catalan gat  [details]
Danish småplettet rødhaj  [details]
Dutch hondshaai  [details]
English dogfish  [details]
English lesser spotted dogfish  [details]
English rough hound  [details]
English sandy dogfish  [details]
English small spotted catshark  [details]
French petite rousette  [details]
French petite roussette  [details]
German kleiner Katzenhai  [details]
German kleingefleckter Katzenhai  [details]
Hebrew גלדן כלבי  [details]
Italian gattucio  [details]
Lithuanian mažadėmis katryklis  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Σκυλοψαράκι  [details]
Norwegian småflekket rødhai  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål småflekket rødhai  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk småflekka raudhai  [details]
Polish rekinek  [details]
Polish rekinek psi  [details]
Portuguese pataroxa  [details]
Russian morskoi kot  [details]
Russian Акула кошачья мелкопятнистая  [details]
Russian кошачья акула  [details]
Scottish Gaelic morgay  [details]
Slovenian navadna morska mačka  [details]
Spanish gato  [details]
Spanish pintarroja  [details]
Swedish småfläckig rödhaj  [details]
Turkish kedi baligi  [details]
Turkish kedi balığı  [details]
Ukrainian Акула котяча звичайна  [details]
Ukrainian Акула кошача дрібноплямиста  [details]
Ukrainian Звичайна котяча акула  [details]
Welsh morgi  [details]
Welsh morgi meiaf  [details]
Direct child
taxa

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Subspecies Scyliorhinus canicula albomaculata Pietschmann, 1906 accepted as Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Black Sea [details]
British Isles [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Oostende [details]
Oosterschelde [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Westerschelde [details]
Wimereux [details]
Zeeschelde [details]
Host of  Albionella globosa (Leigh-Sharpe, 1918) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lernaeopoda galei Krøyer, 1837 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (100 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (31 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (2202 nucleotides; 494 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Classification: Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758) [details]

Diet: Feeds on molluscs and crustaceans, small cephalopods, polychaete worms, and small bony fishes [details]

Habitat: Found on sandy, coralline, algal, gravel or muddy bottoms at depths of a few meters commonly down to 110 m. [details]

Habitat: benthic [details]

Importance: Social- Minor fisheries and show aquarium [details]

Reproduction: Oviparous, with a single egg laid per oviduct at a time [details]

Spelling: In Müller (2004) as S. caniculus [details]

Spelling: Misspelled or unjustifiably emended to Scylliorhinus, Scyliorhynchus, and Scyliorhynus by authors. [details]
Images 
Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
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eggs of Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
eggs of Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Small-spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula)
Small-spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula)
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Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Gilson (1921, fig. 05)
Gilson (1921, fig. 05)
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Poll (1947, fig. 023)
Poll (1947, fig. 023)
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Poll (1947, fig. 024)
Poll (1947, fig. 024)
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Poll (1947, fig. 025 & 026)
Poll (1947, fig. 025 & 026)
added on 2008-08-11 - author: H. Dupond in Poll (1947) (naar Bonaparte)
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Dogfish - Scyliorhinus canicula
Dogfish - Scyliorhinus canicula
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Scyliorhinus canicula
Scyliorhinus canicula
added on 2009-04-25 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
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Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758)
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hondshaai kapsels
hondshaai kapsels
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hondshaai kapsels
hondshaai kapsels
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Hondshaai - Scyliorhinus canicula
Hondshaai - Scyliorhinus canicula
added on 2011-11-23 - author: Maurice De Meyer ()
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Hondshaai embryo
Hondshaai embryo
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Hondshaai embryo
Hondshaai embryo
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Eikapsels hondshaai
Eikapsels hondshaai
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Video 
Dissection dogfish (Dutch)
Dissection dogfish (Dutch)
added on 2011-06-17 - author: Copejans, Evy
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:105814
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=105814 on 2013-05-22
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