WoRMS taxon details
Mustelus antarcticus Günther, 1870
271380 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:271380)
accepted
Species
Emissola ganearum Whitley, 1945 · unaccepted
Emissola maugeana Whitley, 1939 · unaccepted
Mustelus walkeri White & Last, 2008 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Günther, A. (1870). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, ...[thru] ... Leptocardii, in the British Museum. v. 8: i-xxv + 1-549. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Mustelus antarcticus Günther, 1870. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=271380 on 2026-02-24
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Nomenclature
original description
Günther, A. (1870). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, ...[thru] ... Leptocardii, in the British Museum. v. 8: i-xxv + 1-549. [details]
original description (of Emissola ganearum Whitley, 1945) Whitley, G. P. (1945). New sharks and fishes from Western Australia. Part 2. <em>Australian Zoologist.</em> v. 11 (pt 1): 1-42, Pl. 1. [details]
original description (of Mustelus walkeri White & Last, 2008) White, W.T.; Last, P.R. (2008). Description of two new species of gummy sharks, genus Mustelus (Carcharhiniformes: Triakidae) from Australian waters. In Last, P.R., White, W.T. & Pogonoski, J.J. (eds.): Descriptions of New Australian Chondrichthyans. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper no. 22. [details]
original description (of Emissola ganearum Whitley, 1945) Whitley, G. P. (1945). New sharks and fishes from Western Australia. Part 2. <em>Australian Zoologist.</em> v. 11 (pt 1): 1-42, Pl. 1. [details]
original description (of Mustelus walkeri White & Last, 2008) White, W.T.; Last, P.R. (2008). Description of two new species of gummy sharks, genus Mustelus (Carcharhiniformes: Triakidae) from Australian waters. In Last, P.R., White, W.T. & Pogonoski, J.J. (eds.): Descriptions of New Australian Chondrichthyans. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper no. 22. [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). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (from synonym Mustelus walkeri White & Last, 2008)
To Barcode of Life (15 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (107 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Emissola ganearum Whitley, 1945)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Emissola maugeana Whitley, 1939)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Mustelus antarcticus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Emissola ganearum Whitley, 1945)
To FishBase (from synonym Mustelus walkeri White & Last, 2008)
To FishBase (from synonym Emissola maugeana Whitley, 1939)
To GenBank (53 nucleotides; 36 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient) (from synonym Mustelus walkeri White & Last, 2008)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Barcode of Life (15 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (107 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Emissola ganearum Whitley, 1945)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Emissola maugeana Whitley, 1939)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Mustelus antarcticus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Emissola ganearum Whitley, 1945)
To FishBase (from synonym Mustelus walkeri White & Last, 2008)
To FishBase (from synonym Emissola maugeana Whitley, 1939)
To GenBank (53 nucleotides; 36 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient) (from synonym Mustelus walkeri White & Last, 2008)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
