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Locations of barcode samples
Collection Sites: world map showing specimen collection locations for Somniosidae
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| Specimen Records: | 310 |
| Specimens with Sequences: | 230 |
| Specimens with Barcodes: | 134 |
| Public Records: | 20 |
| Species: | 17 |
| Species With Barcodes: | 15 |
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Somniosidae
Somniosidae is a family of sharks in the order Squaliformes, commonly known as sleeper sharks.[1]
Genera
- Centroscymnus Barbosa du Bocage & Brito Capello, 1864
- Centroscymnus coelolepis (Barbosa du Bocage & Brito Capello, 1864) (Portuguese dogfish)
- Centroscymnus cryptacanthus (Regan, 1906) (Shortnose velvet dogfish)
- Centroscymnus owstoni (Garman, 1906) (Roughskin dogfish)
- Centroselachus Garman, 1913
- Centroselachus crepidater (Barbosa du Bocage & Brito Capello, 1864) (Longnose velvet dogfish)
- Proscymnodon Fowler, 1934
- Proscymnodon macracanthus (Regan, 1906) (Largespine velvet dogfish)
- Proscymnodon plunketi (Waite, 1910) (Plunket shark)
- Scymnodalatias Garrick, 1956
- Scymnodalatias albicauda Taniuchi & Garrick, 1986 (Whitetail dogfish)
- Scymnodalatias garricki Kukuyev & Konovalenko, 1988 (Azores dogfish)
- Scymnodalatias oligodon Kukuyev & Konovalenko, 1988 (Sparsetooth dogfish)
- Scymnodalatias sherwoodi (Archey, 1921) (Sherwood dogfish)
- Scymnodon Barbosa du Bocage & Brito Capello, 1864
- Scymnodon obscurus (Vaillant, 1888) (Smallmouth knifetooth dogfish)
- Scymnodon ringens Barbosa du Bocage & Brito Capello, 1864 (Knifetooth dogfish)
- Somniosus Lesueur, 1818
- Somniosus antarcticus Whitley, 1939 (Southern sleeper shark)
- Somniosus longus (Tanaka, 1912) (Frog shark)
- Somniosus microcephalus (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (Greenland shark)
- Somniosus pacificus Bigelow & Schroeder, 1944 (Pacific sleeper shark)
- Somniosus rostratus (Risso, 1827) (Little sleeper shark)
- Zameus D. S. Jordan & Fowler, 1903
- Zameus ichiharai (Yano & S. Tanaka (II), 1984) (Japanese velvet dogfish)
- Zameus squamulosus (Günther, 1877) (Velvet dogfish)
References
- ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). "Somniosidae" in FishBase. February 2011 version.
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