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Scyliorhinus
Scylorhinus is a genus of catsharks in the family Scyliorhinidae. They are also known as "catshark". This genus is known in the fossil records from the Cretaceous period, late Albian age to the Pliocene epoch.
17 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 17 known species
Small-spotted Catshark
speciesScyliorhinus canicula
Nursehound
speciesScyliorhinus stellaris
Chain Catshark
speciesScyliorhinus retifer
Duhamel's Catshark
speciesScyliorhinus duhamelii
Cloudy catshark
speciesScyliorhinus torazame
Yellow-spotted catshark
speciesScyliorhinus capensis
White-saddled catshark
speciesScyliorhinus hesperius
Blotched Catshark
speciesScyliorhinus meadi
Cinder cloudy catshark
speciesScyliorhinus hachijoensis
West African catshark
speciesScyliorhinus cervigoni
Boa Catshark
speciesScyliorhinus boa
Brazilian catshark
speciesScyliorhinus cabofriensis
Comoro catshark
speciesScyliorhinus comoroensis
Freckled catshark
speciesScyliorhinus haeckelii
Dark-freckled catshark
speciesScyliorhinus ugoi
Brown-spotted catshark
speciesScyliorhinus garmani
dwarf catshark
speciesScyliorhinus torrei
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 91969.