WoRMS taxon details
Apristurus profundorum (Goode & Bean, 1896)
158513 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158513)
accepted
Species
Scylliorhinus profundorum Goode & Bean, 1896 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Scylliorhinus profundorum Goode & Bean, 1896) Goode, G.B.; Bean, T.H. (1896). Oceanic Ichthyology, a treatise on the deep-sea and pelagic fishes of the world, based chiefly upon the collections made by the steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk in the northwestern Atlantic, with an atlas containing 417 figures. <em>Spec. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus.</em> Text: 2: i-xxxv + 1-26 + 1-553. Atlas: i-xxiii, 1-26. Pls. 123., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.48521 [details] 
Distribution off Delaware Bay, and off Suriname
Distribution off Delaware Bay, and off Suriname [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Apristurus profundorum (Goode & Bean, 1896). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158513 on 2026-07-09
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Scylliorhinus profundorum Goode & Bean, 1896) Goode, G.B.; Bean, T.H. (1896). Oceanic Ichthyology, a treatise on the deep-sea and pelagic fishes of the world, based chiefly upon the collections made by the steamers Blake, Albatross, and Fish Hawk in the northwestern Atlantic, with an atlas containing 417 figures. <em>Spec. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus.</em> Text: 2: i-xxxv + 1-26 + 1-553. Atlas: i-xxiii, 1-26. Pls. 123., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.48521 [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, 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 at https://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 at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Diet Feeds on bottom or midwater fishes, crustaceans and molluscs [details]Distribution off Delaware Bay, and off Suriname [details]
Habitat benthic [details]
Habitat on or near the bottom in tropical, temperate and arctic waters [details]
Importance Social- Human food [details]
Reproduction Oviparous, depositing eggs on bottom [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | deepsea cat shark | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (23 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) (from synonym Scylliorhinus profundorum Goode & Bean, 1896)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Apristurus profundorum)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Scylliorhinus profundorum Goode & Bean, 1896)
To GenBank (26 nucleotides; 23 proteins) (from synonym Scylliorhinus profundorum Goode & Bean, 1896)
To GenBank (26 nucleotides; 23 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Scylliorhinus profundorum RAD110252-001) (from synonym Scylliorhinus profundorum Goode & Bean, 1896)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Scyllium profundorum P01555 illustration) (from synonym Scylliorhinus profundorum Goode & Bean, 1896)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) (from synonym Scylliorhinus profundorum Goode & Bean, 1896)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Apristurus profundorum)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Scylliorhinus profundorum Goode & Bean, 1896)
To GenBank (26 nucleotides; 23 proteins) (from synonym Scylliorhinus profundorum Goode & Bean, 1896)
To GenBank (26 nucleotides; 23 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Scylliorhinus profundorum RAD110252-001) (from synonym Scylliorhinus profundorum Goode & Bean, 1896)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Scyllium profundorum P01555 illustration) (from synonym Scylliorhinus profundorum Goode & Bean, 1896)
To ITIS
