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Distributions and : Scyliorhinidae

FAMILY Scyliorhinidae Gill, 1862 -

GENUS Garman, 1913 - catsharks

Species Atelomycterus baliensis White et al., 2005 - Bali Distribution: . : marine.

Species Atelomycterus erdmanni Fahmi & White, 2015 - Nudi Retreat catshark Distribution: Sulawesi, Indonesia. Habitat: marine.

Species Atelomycterus fasciatus Compagno & Stevens, 1993 - banded sand catshark Distribution: Northwestern . Habitat: marine.

Species Atelomycterus macleayi Whitley, 1939 - Australian marbled catshark Distribution: Northern Australia. Habitat: marine. Species Atelomycterus marmoratus (Bennett, 1830) - catshark Distribution: Indo-West Pacific, continental; and thorugh the East Indies and north to and south to Papua . Habitat: marine.

Species Atelomycterus marnkalha Jacobsen & Bennett, 2007 - Eastern banded catshark Distribution: Eastern Queensland to northern Australia to southern Papua New Guinea. Habitat: marine.

GENUS Fowler, 1934 - catsharks

Species Aulohalaelurus kanakorum Séret, 1990 - New Caledonia catshark Distribution: Southwestern Pacific: New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.

Species Aulohalaelurus labiosus (Waite, 1905) - Australian blackspotted catshark Distribution: Australia: Western Australia. Habitat: marine.

GENUS Compagno, 1988 - catsharks

Species Bythaelurus alcockii (Garman, 1913) - Arabian catshark Distribution: Western : Arabian Sea. Habitat: marine.

Species Bythaelurus bachi Weigmann et al., 2016 - Walters Shoals catshark Distribution: Walters Shoals, southwestern Indian Ocean. Habitat: marine.

Species Bythaelurus dawsoni (Springer, 1971) - New Zealand catshark Distribution: New Zealand. Habitat: marine.

Species Bythaelurus giddingsi McCosker et al., 2012 - Galapagos catshark Distribution: Galápagos Islands. Habitat: marine.

Species Bythaelurus hispidus (Alcock, 1891) - bristly catshark Distribution: Indian Ocean: India, Sri Lanka and Andaman Islands. Habitat: marine.

Species Bythaelurus immaculatus (Chu & Meng, in Chu et al., 1982) - spotless catshark Distribution: Western North Pacific: South China Sea. Habitat: marine. Species Bythaelurus incanus Last & Stevens, 2008 - Sombre cat Distribution: Southeastern Indian Ocean: off northwestern Australia. Habitat: marine.

Species Bythaelurus lutarius (Springer & D'Aubrey, 1972) - mud catshark Distribution: Western Indian Ocean: Mozambique and Somalia. Habitat: marine.

Species Bythaelurus naylori Ebert & Clerkin, 2015 - Naylor's catshark Distribution: Southwest Indian Ocean. Habitat: marine.

Species Bythaelurus canescens (Günther, 1878) - Distribution: Southeastern Pacific. Habitat: marine.

Species Bythaelurus clevai (Seret, 1987) - broadhead catshark Distribution: Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar. Habitat: marine.

Species Bythaelurus tenuicephalus Kaschner et al., 2015 - Kaschner's catshark Distribution: Off Northern Tanzania and Mozambique. Habitat: marine. GENUS Gill, 1862 - swellsharks

Species Cephaloscyllium albipinnum Last et al., 2008 - whitefin swellshark Distribution: Southern Australia. Habitat: marine.

Species Cephaloscyllium cooki Last et al., 2008 - Cook's swellshark Distribution: Arafura Sea off Australia and eastern Indonesia. Habitat: marine.

Species Cephaloscyllium fasciatum Chan, 1966 - reticulated swellshark Distribution: Western Pacific. Habitat: marine.

Species Cephaloscyllium formosanum Teng, 1962 - Tungkang swellshark Distribution: Western North Pacific: . Habitat: marine.

Species Cephaloscyllium hiscosellum White & Ebert, 2008 - Australian reticulated swellshark Distribution: Northwestern Australia. Habitat: marine. Species Cephaloscyllium isabella (Bonnaterre, 1788) - Draughtsbroad shark Distribution: Southwestern Pacific: Australia and New Zealand. Habitat: marine.

Species Cephaloscyllium laticeps (Dumeril, 1853) - Australian swellshark Distribution: Southern Australia: southern New South Wales to Western Australia. Habitat: marine.

Species Cephaloscyllium sarawakensis Yano et al., in Yano et al., 2005 - Sarawak pygmy swellshark Distribution: Western Pacific: Malaysia, Taiwan. Habitat: marine.

Species Cephaloscyllium pictum Last et al., 2008 - painted swellshark Distribution: Eastern Indonesia. Habitat: marine.

Species Cephaloscyllium signourum Last et al., 2008 - flagtail swellshark Distribution: Northeasstern Australia (also possibly New Caledonia, Fiji and Vanuatu). Habitat: marine.

Species Cephaloscyllium silasi (Talwar, 1974) - Indian swellshark Distribution: Western Indian Ocean: India. Habitat: marine.

Species Cephaloscyllium speccum Last et al., 2008 - speckled swellshark Distribution: Northwestern Australia. Habitat: marine.

Species Cephaloscyllium stevensi Clark & Randall, 2011 - Steven's swellshark Distribution: Papua New Ginea. Habitat: marine.

Species Cephaloscyllium sufflans (Regan, 1921) - balloonshark Distribution: Western Indian Ocean. Habitat: marine.

Species Cephaloscyllium umbratile Jordan & Fowler, 1903 - blotchy swellshark Distribution: Western North Pacific. Habitat: marine.

Species Cephaloscyllium variegatum Last & White, 2008 - variegated swellshark Distribution: Eastern Australia: Queensland and New South Wales. Habitat: marine. Species Cephaloscyllium ventriosum (Garman, 1880) - saddled swellshark Distribution: Eastern Pacific: California to southern Mexico; Chile. Habitat: marine.

Species Cephaloscyllium zebrum Last & White, 2008 - narrowbar swellshark Distribution: Queensland, Australia. Habitat: marine.

GENUS Whitley, 1928 - catsharks

Species Figaro boardmani (Whitley, 1928) - Australian sawtail catshark Distribution: Australia: southern Queensland to southern Australia and to Western Australia. Habitat: marine.

Species Figaro striatus Gledhill et al., 2008 - Northern sawtail catshark Distribution: Northeastern Australia. Habitat: marine.

GENUS Garman, 1913 - shysharks

Species Haploblepharus edwardsii (Schinz, 1822) - Distribution: Southeastern Atlantic and western Indian Ocean: southern Africa. Habitat: marine.

Species Haploblepharus fuscus Smith, 1950 - brown shyshark Distribution: Southeastern Atlantic, southwestern Indian Ocean: southern Africa. Habitat: marine.

Species Haploblepharus kistnasamyi Human & Compagno, 2006 - Natal shyshark Distribution: Southeastern . Habitat: marine.

Species Haploblepharus pictus (Müller & Henle, 1838) - dark shyshark Distribution: Southeastern Atlantic and southwestern Indian Ocean: Namibia and South Africa. Habitat: marine.

GENUS Smith, 1838 - barbelled catsharks

Species Poroderma africanum (Gmelin, 1789) - pyjama shark Distribution: Southeastern Atlantic, southwestern Indian Ocean: South Africa ( to East London), Madagascar, Mauritius (Mascarenes). Habitat: marine.

Species Poroderma pantherinum (Müller & Henle, 1838) - barbeled catshark Distribution: Southeastern Atlantic, southwestern Indian Ocean: South Africa (Algoa Bay to KwaZulu-Natal), Madagascar, Mauritius (Mascarenes). Habitat: marine.

GENUS Springer, 1966 - catsharks

Species Schroederichthys bivius (Müller & Henle, 1838) - narrowmouth catshark Distribution: Southeastern Pacific and southwestern Atlantic. Habitat: marine.

Species Schroederichthys chilensis (Guichenot, 1848) - redspotted catshark Distribution: Southeastern Pacific. Habitat: marine.

Species Schroederichthys maculatus Springer, 1966 - narrowtail catshark Distribution: Western Atlantic: Honduras and Nicaragua. Habitat: marine.

Species Schroederichthys saurisqualus Soto, 2001 - lizard catshark Distribution: Western South Atlantic, from Paraná to Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Habitat: marine. Species Schroederichthys tenuis Springer, 1966 - slender catshark Distribution: Western Atlantic: Suriname to northern Brazil. Habitat: marine.

GENUS Blainville, 1816 - catsharks

Species Scyliorhinus boa Goode & Bean, 1896 - boa catshark Distribution: Western Atlantic. Habitat: marine.

Species Scyliorhinus cabofriensis Soares et al., 2016 - Cabo Frio catshark Distribution: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Habitat: marine.

Species Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758) - lesser spotted dogfish Distribution: Western Baltic Sea, , , Black Sea, eastern North Atlantic: Shetland Islands and southern to . Habitat: marine.

Species Scyliorhinus capensis (Müller & Henle, 1838) - yellowspotted catshark Distribution: Southeastern Atlantic. Habitat: marine. Species Scyliorhinus cervigoni Maurin & Bonnet, 1970 - West African catshark Distribution: Eastern Atlantic. Habitat: marine.

Species Scyliorhinus comoroensis Compagno, 1988 - Comoro catshark Distribution: Western Indian Ocean: Comoro Islands. Habitat: marine.

Species Scyliorhinus garmani (Fowler, 1934) - brownspotted catshark Distribution: Indo-West Pacific. Habitat: marine.

Species Scyliorhinus haeckelii (Miranda Ribeiro, 1907) - freckled catshark Distribution: Western Atlantic, from Venezuela to Uruguay. Habitat: marine.

Species Scyliorhinus hesperius Springer, 1966 - whitesaddled catshark Distribution: Central western Atlantic. Habitat: marine.

Species Scyliorhinus meadi Springer, 1966 - blotched catshark Distribution: Western North Atlantic. Habitat: marine.

Species Scyliorhinus retifer (Garman, 1881) - chain dogfish Distribution: Western Atlantic. Habitat: marine.

Species Scyliorhinus stellaris (Linnaeus, 1758) - bull huss, Distribution: North Sea, Mediterranean Sea, eastern North Atlantic: Shetland Islands and southern Norway to Morocco. Habitat: marine.

Species Scyliorhinus tokubee Shirai et al., 1992 - Izu catshark Distribution: Western North Pacific: Japan. Habitat: marine.

Species Scyliorhinus torazame (Tanaka, 1908) - Distribution: Western North Pacific. Habitat: marine.

Species Scyliorhinus torrei Howell Rivero, 1936 - dwarf catshark Distribution: Western Atlantic. Habitat: marine Species Scyliorhinus ugoi Soares et al., 2015 - Bahia catshark Distribution: Brazil. Habitat: marine.