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Dalatias licha (Bonnaterre, 1788) 
AphiaID: 105910

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Elasmobranchii (Class) > Neoselachii (Subclass) > Selachii (Infraclass) > Squalomorphi (Superorder) > Squaliformes (Order) > Dalatiidae (Family) > Dalatias (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Dalatias Rafinesque, 1810
Synonymised
taxa
  Dalatias lica (Bonnaterre, 1788) (misspelling)
Dalatias lichia (Bonnaterre, 1788) (misspelling)
Dalatias sparophagus Rafinesque, 1810
Dalatias tachiensis Shen & Ting, 1972
Pseudoscymnus boshuensis Herre, 1935
Scymnorhinus brevipinnis Smith, 1936
Scymnorhinus licha (Bonnaterre, 1788) (synonym)
Scymnorhinus phillippsi Whitley, 1931
Scymnus aquitanensis de la Pylaie, 1835
Scymnus vulgaris Cloquet, 1822
Squalus americanus Gmelin, 1789
Squalus licha Bonnaterre, 1788 (synonym)
Squalus nicaeensis Risso, 1810
Squalus scymnus Voigt, 1832
Sources  basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS[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: Collette, B.B., and G. Klein-MacPhee (eds.). 2002. Bigelow and Schroeder's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine, 3rd edition. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London. 748 p. [details]

additional source: Nijssen, 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 source: Bonnaterre, J.P. (1788). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature... Ichthyologie. Paris. i-lvi + 1-215, Pls. A-B + 1-100.
page(s): 12 [details]


additional source: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [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: Roberts, C.; Stewart, A.; Francis, M. (2009). Marine fishes (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

additional source: McEachran, 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 source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

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

from synonym: Bonaparte, C.L. (1846). Catalogo metodico dei pesci europei. Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. Milano 1846, pp 1-95. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Rafinesque, C.S. (1810). Caratteri di alcuni nuovi generi e nuove specie di animali e piante della sicilia, con varie osservazioni sopra i medisimi. Per le stampe di Sanfilippo: Palermo, Italy. 105, 20 fold. Pl 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 
Danish chokoladehaj  [details]
Dutch chocoladehaai  [details]
Dutch zwarte haai  [details]
English Darkie Charlie  [details]
English kitefin shark  [details]
French squale liche  [details]
German Schokoladenhai  [details]
Hebrew קמוט-שפה  [details]
Italian zigrino  [details]
Lithuanian šokoladinis dygliaryklis  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Σκυμνοσκυλόψαρο  [details]
Norwegian Spansk håkjerring  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål Spansk håkjerring  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk Spansk håkjerring  [details]
Portuguese gata-lixa  [details]
Russian черная акула  [details]
Spanish carocho  [details]
Spanish lija  [details]
Spanish lija negra  [details]
Spanish negra  [details]
Turkish kut burunlu camgoz  [details]
Turkish küt burunlu camgöz  [details]
Turkish kut burunlu kopekbaligi  [details]
Turkish küt burunlu köpekbalığı  [details]
Welsh morgi gweflog  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Azores [details]
Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin [details]
Mozambique [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux (not certain[details]
Links Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (38 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (24 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  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]
Image 
Poll (1947, fig. 042 & 043)
Poll (1947, fig. 042 & 043)
added on 2008-08-11 - author: H. Dupond in Poll (1947) (naar Bonaparte)
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:105910
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). Dalatias licha (Bonnaterre, 1788). 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=105910 on 2013-05-24
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