WoRMS taxon details
Proscyllium venustum (Tanaka, 1912)
282370 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:282370)
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                    Species
                    
                        
                Calliscyllium venustum Tanaka, 1912 · unaccepted
Triakis venustum (Tanaka, 1912) · unaccepted
                    
                marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
                    
            
            
                                                                    
            
                    
                
(of Calliscyllium venustum Tanaka, 1912) Tanaka, S. (1912). Figures and descriptions of the fishes of Japan including the Riukiu Islands, Bonin Islands, Formosa, Kurile Islands, Korea, and southern Sakhalin. <em>Imperial University, Tokyo.</em> v. 10: 165-186, Pls. 46-50. [In Japanese and English. Also appeared as a reprint, Nov. 1916.]. [details] 
                    
            
            
                                                                    
            
                    
                Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Proscyllium venustum (Tanaka, 1912). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=282370 on 2025-11-04
                    
            
            
                                                
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Calliscyllium venustum Tanaka, 1912) Tanaka, S. (1912). Figures and descriptions of the fishes of Japan including the Riukiu Islands, Bonin Islands, Formosa, Kurile Islands, Korea, and southern Sakhalin. <em>Imperial University, Tokyo.</em> v. 10: 165-186, Pls. 46-50. [In Japanese and English. Also appeared as a reprint, Nov. 1916.]. [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
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details] 
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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                    additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
 Present 
 Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio  
 Inaccurate 
 Introduced: alien 
 Containing type locality 
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ヒョウザメ | [details] | 
            To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Triakis venustum (Tanaka, 1912))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Calliscyllium venustum Tanaka, 1912)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Calliscyllium venustum Tanaka, 1912)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Proscyllium venustum)
To FishBase (from synonym Triakis venustum (Tanaka, 1912))
To FishBase (from synonym Calliscyllium venustum Tanaka, 1912)
To FishBase
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Calliscyllium venustum Tanaka, 1912)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Proscyllium venustum USNM 191184 radiograph)
To ITIS
        
    
                            
    
                    
                    
            To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Triakis venustum (Tanaka, 1912))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Calliscyllium venustum Tanaka, 1912)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Calliscyllium venustum Tanaka, 1912)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Proscyllium venustum)
To FishBase (from synonym Triakis venustum (Tanaka, 1912))
To FishBase (from synonym Calliscyllium venustum Tanaka, 1912)
To FishBase
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Calliscyllium venustum Tanaka, 1912)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Proscyllium venustum USNM 191184 radiograph)
To ITIS