WoRMS taxon details
Centrophorus moluccensis Bleeker, 1860
AphiaID: 215598
AphiaID: 215598
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Elasmobranchii (Class) > Neoselachii (Subclass) > Selachii (Infraclass) > Squalomorphi (Superorder) > Squaliformes (Order) > Centrophoridae (Family) > Centrophorus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Centrophorus Müller & Henle, 1837 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Atractophorus armatus Gilchrist, 1922 (synonym) Centrophorus scalpratus McCulloch, 1915 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom 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] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Mozambique [details] Mtwapa (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] South Africa (country) [details] Ungama Bay (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (31 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FAO Species fact sheets To FishBase To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 11 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: A common deepwater dogfish of the outer continental shelves and upper slopes. Feeds on bony fish, including lanternfish, bramids, carangids, worm-eels, bonito, hairtails, oilfishes, as well as other sharks, squids, octopi, shrimps, and tunicates. Ovoviviparous, number of young 2 per litter. [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215598 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Centrophorus moluccensis Bleeker, 1860. 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=215598 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||
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