Thalassia Salentina Thalassia Sal. 43 (2021), 35-42 ISSN 0563-3745, e-ISSN 1591-0725 DOI 10.1285/i15910725v43p35 http: siba-ese.unisalento.it - © 2021 Università del Salento CHRISTIAN CAPAPÉ1, SIHEM RAFRAFI-NOUIRA2, MOHAMED MOURAD BEN AMOR3, KHADIJA OUNIFI-BEN AMOR3, CHRISTIAN REYNAUD4 1 Lab. d’Ichtyologie, Université de Montpellier, case 104, 34095 Montpellier cedex 5, France 2 Univ. de Carthage, Unité de Recherches Exploitation des Milieux aquatiques, Institut Supé- rieur de Pêche et d’Aquaculture de Bizerte, BP 15, 7080 Menzel Jemil, Tunisia 2 Institut National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer, port de pêche, 2025 La Goulette, Tunisia. 4 Lab. Interdisciplinaire en Didactique, Education et Formation, Univ. de Montpellier, 2 place Marcel Godechot, B.P. 4152, 34092 Montpellier cedex 5, France email:
[email protected] OXYNOTUS CENTRINA (OXYNOTIDAE) FROM THE TUNISIAN COAST (MEDITERRANEAN SEA) SUMMARY The authors report in the present paper the capture of two specimens of a rare shark, angular rough shark Oxynotus centrina (Linnaeus, 1758), from the northern coast of Tunisia. A first specimen was a juvenile female caught off Ras Jebel, the second specimen was a juvenile male caught off Kelibia. These captures occurred after two decades in the area where it appears that the species is not totally exctincted. The Mediterranean distribution of O. cen- trina appears to be different according to the region, absent from the coast of France, specimens were still sporadically caught in the Adriatic Sea, and mainly in the Aegean Sea and the eastern Basin. INTRODUCTION Angular rough shark Oxynotus centrina (Linnaeus, 1758) is rather consid- ered as a rare species, known in the eastern Atlantic from the British Isles (WHEELER, 1969) to Mauritania (MAURIN and BONNET, 1970) and Senegal (CA- PAPÉ et al., 2001).