WoRMS taxon details
Apristurus saldanha (Barnard, 1925)
217636 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217636)
accepted
Species
Scylliorhinus saldanha Barnard, 1925 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Scylliorhinus saldanha Barnard, 1925) Barnard, K. H. (1925). A monograph of the marine fishes of South Africa. Part 1. (Amphioxus, Cyclostomata, Elasmobranchii, and Teleostei -- Isospondyli to Heterosomata.). <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 21 (1): 1-418, 1-17., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40659745#page/19/mode/1up [details] Available for editors 
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Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Apristurus saldanha (Barnard, 1925). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217636 on 2026-07-10
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Scylliorhinus saldanha Barnard, 1925) Barnard, K. H. (1925). A monograph of the marine fishes of South Africa. Part 1. (Amphioxus, Cyclostomata, Elasmobranchii, and Teleostei -- Isospondyli to Heterosomata.). <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 21 (1): 1-418, 1-17., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40659745#page/19/mode/1up [details] Available for editors [request]
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]
[request]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
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Scylliorhinus saldanha Barnard, 1925)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Apristurus saldanha)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Scylliorhinus saldanha Barnard, 1925)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Scylliorhinus saldanha Barnard, 1925)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Scylliorhinus saldanha Barnard, 1925)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Apristurus saldanha)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Scylliorhinus saldanha Barnard, 1925)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Scylliorhinus saldanha Barnard, 1925)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
