CaRMS taxon details
Dalatias licha (Bonnaterre, 1788)
105910 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:105910)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of ) Bonnaterre, J. P. (1788). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature... Ichthyologie. <em>Panckoucke, Paris.</em> i-lvi + 1-215, Pls. A-B. 1-100., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=Z67NZ0_oObYC&pg=PR1 [details] 
Description Found on the outer continental and insular shelves and slopes, most commonly below 200 m. Primarily a solitary shark. Feeds...
Distribution from George's Bank, the east coast of Florida, Northern Gulf of Mexico, and off the southern Bahamas
Description Found on the outer continental and insular shelves and slopes, most commonly below 200 m. Primarily a solitary shark. Feeds mainly on bony fishes and also skates, other sharks (Galeus, Squalus, Etmopterus and Centrophorus), and also on squids, octopi, amphipods, isopods, shrimps, lobsters, polychaetes and siphonophores. Adults eat more crustaceans and sharks and less cephalopods than young. Ovoviviparous with 10 to 16 young in a litter. Quite common. [details]
Distribution from George's Bank, the east coast of Florida, Northern Gulf of Mexico, and off the southern Bahamas
Distribution from George's Bank, the east coast of Florida, Northern Gulf of Mexico, and off the southern Bahamas [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2021). FishBase. Dalatias licha (Bonnaterre, 1788). Accessed through: Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2021) Canadian Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/CaRMS/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=105910 on 2025-05-18
Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2025). Canadian Register of Marine Species. Dalatias licha (Bonnaterre, 1788). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=105910 on 2025-05-18
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(of ) Bonnaterre, J. P. (1788). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature... Ichthyologie. <em>Panckoucke, Paris.</em> i-lvi + 1-215, Pls. A-B. 1-100., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=Z67NZ0_oObYC&pg=PR1 [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
context source (Bermuda) Clark, E.; Kristof, E. (1990). Deep-sea elasmobranchs observed from submersibles off Bermuda, Grand Cayman, and Freeport, Bahamas In: Pratt, Jr., H. L., S. H. Gruber & T. Taniuchi (eds.), Elasmobranchs as Living Resources: Advances in the Biology, Ecology, Systematics, and the Status of the Fisheries. NOAA Technical Report 90, 269-284 [details]
basis of record van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Collette, B. B., ; Klein-MacPhee, G. (2002). Bigelow and Schroeder's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine. <em>Smithsonian Institution Press.</em> 1-748. [details]
additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
additional source King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 431-554. [details]
additional source McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [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
additional source Nijssen, H.; de Groot, S.J. (1987). De vissen van Nederland: systematische indeling, historisch overzicht, het ontstaan van de viskweek, uitheemse vissoorten, determineersleutels, beschrijvingen, afbeeldingen, literatuur, van alle in Nederlandse wateren voor komende zee- en zoetwatervissoorten [Fishes of the Netherlands: systematic classification, historical overview, origins of fish culture, non-indigenous species, determination keys, descriptions, drawings, literature references on all marine and freshwater fish species living in Dutch waters]. KNNV Uitgeverij: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5011-006-1. 224 pp. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 12 [details]
additional source Bonnaterre, J. P. (1788). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature... Ichthyologie. <em>Panckoucke, Paris.</em> i-lvi + 1-215, Pls. A-B. 1-100., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=Z67NZ0_oObYC&pg=PR1
page(s): 12 [details]
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]
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]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
context source (Bermuda) Clark, E.; Kristof, E. (1990). Deep-sea elasmobranchs observed from submersibles off Bermuda, Grand Cayman, and Freeport, Bahamas In: Pratt, Jr., H. L., S. H. Gruber & T. Taniuchi (eds.), Elasmobranchs as Living Resources: Advances in the Biology, Ecology, Systematics, and the Status of the Fisheries. NOAA Technical Report 90, 269-284 [details]
basis of record van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Collette, B. B., ; Klein-MacPhee, G. (2002). Bigelow and Schroeder's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine. <em>Smithsonian Institution Press.</em> 1-748. [details]
additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
additional source King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 431-554. [details]
additional source McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [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
additional source Nijssen, H.; de Groot, S.J. (1987). De vissen van Nederland: systematische indeling, historisch overzicht, het ontstaan van de viskweek, uitheemse vissoorten, determineersleutels, beschrijvingen, afbeeldingen, literatuur, van alle in Nederlandse wateren voor komende zee- en zoetwatervissoorten [Fishes of the Netherlands: systematic classification, historical overview, origins of fish culture, non-indigenous species, determination keys, descriptions, drawings, literature references on all marine and freshwater fish species living in Dutch waters]. KNNV Uitgeverij: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5011-006-1. 224 pp. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 12 [details]
additional source Bonnaterre, J. P. (1788). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature... Ichthyologie. <em>Panckoucke, Paris.</em> i-lvi + 1-215, Pls. A-B. 1-100., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=Z67NZ0_oObYC&pg=PR1
page(s): 12 [details]
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]
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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Description Found on the outer continental and insular shelves and slopes, most commonly below 200 m. Primarily a solitary shark. Feeds mainly on bony fishes and also skates, other sharks (Galeus, Squalus, Etmopterus and Centrophorus), and also on squids, octopi, amphipods, isopods, shrimps, lobsters, polychaetes and siphonophores. Adults eat more crustaceans and sharks and less cephalopods than young. Ovoviviparous with 10 to 16 young in a litter. Quite common. [details]Distribution from George's Bank, the east coast of Florida, Northern Gulf of Mexico, and off the southern Bahamas [details]
Habitat benthic [details]
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Danish | chokoladehaj | [details] |
| Dutch | zwarte haaichocoladehaai | [details] |
| English | kitfin sharkkitefin sharkDarkie Charlie | [details] |
| French | squale liche | [details] |
| German | Schokoladenhai | [details] |
| Hebrew | קמוט-שפה | [details] |
| Italian | zigrino | [details] |
| Japanese | ヨロイザメ | [details] |
| Lithuanian | šokoladinis dygliaryklis | [details] |
| Modern Greek (1453-) | Σκυμνοσκυλόψαρο | [details] |
| Norwegian | Spansk håkjerring | [details] |
| Norwegian Bokmål | Spansk håkjerring | [details] |
| Norwegian Nynorsk | Spansk håkjerring | [details] |
| Portuguese | gata-lixa | [details] |
| Russian | черная акулаЧерная (шелковая, пряморотая) акула | [details] |
| Spanish | negralija negralijacarocho | [details] |
| Turkish | küt burunlu köpekbalığıkut burunlu kopekbaligiküt burunlu camgözkut burunlu camgoz | [details] |
| Welsh | morgi gweflog | [details] |
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (53 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Dalatias licha)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Dalatias licha, Azores Is., by Cambraia Duarte, P.M.N. (c)ImagDOP)
To GenBank (56 nucleotides; 48 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Vulnerable)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Dalatias licha RAD100094-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Dalatias licha RAD100095-001)
To PESI
To ITIS
To Barcode of Life (53 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Dalatias licha)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Dalatias licha, Azores Is., by Cambraia Duarte, P.M.N. (c)ImagDOP)
To GenBank (56 nucleotides; 48 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Vulnerable)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Dalatias licha RAD100094-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Dalatias licha RAD100095-001)
To PESI
To ITIS
