WoRMS taxon details
Squatina africana Regan, 1908
217373 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217373)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Regan, C. T. (1908). A collection of fishes from the coasts of Natal, Zululand, and Cape Colony. <em>Annals of the Natal Museum.</em> v. 1 (pt 3): 241-255, Pls. 37-42. [details]
Description Found on the continental shelf and uppermost slope, inshore near the surf line and deeper. Most commonly found between 60...
Description Found on the continental shelf and uppermost slope, inshore near the surf line and deeper. Most commonly found between 60 and 300 m depth. Feeds on bony fishes, squids and octopi. Ovoviviparous, with about 7 to 11 young in a litter. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Squatina africana Regan, 1908. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217373 on 2026-07-09
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Nomenclature
original description
Regan, C. T. (1908). A collection of fishes from the coasts of Natal, Zululand, and Cape Colony. <em>Annals of the Natal Museum.</em> v. 1 (pt 3): 241-255, Pls. 37-42. [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
Description Found on the continental shelf and uppermost slope, inshore near the surf line and deeper. Most commonly found between 60 and 300 m depth. Feeds on bony fishes, squids and octopi. Ovoviviparous, with about 7 to 11 young in a litter. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | African angelshark | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (35 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Squatina africana)
To FAO Species fact sheets
To FishBase
To GenBank (52 nucleotides; 35 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Near Threatened)
To NHMUK collection (Squatina africana Regan, 1908; HOLOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3127355)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Squatina africana)
To FAO Species fact sheets
To FishBase
To GenBank (52 nucleotides; 35 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Near Threatened)
To NHMUK collection (Squatina africana Regan, 1908; HOLOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3127355)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Hosted externally
Unreviewed
