WoRMS name details

Spinax niger Cloquet, 1816

321631 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:321631)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Chordata (Phylum)
  4. Vertebrata (Subphylum)
  5. Gnathostomata (Infraphylum)
  6. Chondrichthyes (Parvphylum)
  7. Elasmobranchii (Class)
  8. Neoselachii (Subclass)
  9. Selachii (Infraclass)
  10. Squalomorphi (Superorder)
  11. Squaliformes (Order)
  12. Etmopteridae (Family)
  13. Spinax (Genus)
  14. Spinax niger (Species)
 unaccepted
Etmopterus spinax (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species
Spinax Cuvier, 1816 accepted as Etmopterus Rafinesque, 1810
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Cloquet, H. (1816-30). Pisces accounts. <em>In: Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles.</em> Volumes 1-60. [Initials after accounts correspond to authors given in Vol. 1; fish accounts by Lacepède (L. L.), Duméril (C. D.), Daudin (F. M. D.) and Cloquet (H. C.)]. [Dates for volumes are given by Cassini 1834, Opuscles Phytologiques, p. 47.]. [details] 
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Spinax niger Cloquet, 1816. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=321631 on 2026-09-03
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2008-02-28 13:41:07Z
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Bailly, Nicolas
2024-06-10 13:09:42Z
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Bailly, Nicolas

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Nomenclature

original description Cloquet, H. (1816-30). Pisces accounts. <em>In: Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles.</em> Volumes 1-60. [Initials after accounts correspond to authors given in Vol. 1; fish accounts by Lacepède (L. L.), Duméril (C. D.), Daudin (F. M. D.) and Cloquet (H. C.)]. [Dates for volumes are given by Cassini 1834, Opuscles Phytologiques, p. 47.]. [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] 

Other

context source (Deepsea) Natural History Museum, London (NHM): Collections Management Database System. [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (304 publications) 
To FishBase 
To NHMUK collection (Spinax niger Cloquet, 1816; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3125682) 
Unreviewed

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