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Galeus canis Bonaparte, 1834 
AphiaID: 148855

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Elasmobranchii (Class) > Neoselachii (Subclass) > Selachii (Infraclass) > Galeomorphi (Superorder) > Carcharhiniformes (Order) > Scyliorhinidae (Family) > Galeus (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Galeorhinus galeus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rank Species
Parent Galeus Rafinesque, 1810
Sources  original description: Bonaparte, C.L. (1834). Iconografia della fauna italica per le quattro classi degli animali vertebrati. Tomo III. Pesci. Roma. Fasc. 6-11, puntate 29-58, 12 pls. [details]

basis of record: 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, 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]

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 
Dutch steenhaai  [details]
English tope  [details]
French milandre  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Host of  Lernaeopoda bidiscalis Kane, 1892 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lernaeopoda galei Krøyer, 1837 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (347 publications)
To FishBase
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:148855
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-03-29 13:34:27Z  created  Claus, Simon
2008-02-28 13:41:07Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Galeus canis Bonaparte, 1834. 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=148855 on 2013-05-19
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