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Cephaloscyllium
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Cephaloscyllium

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Cephaloscyllium is a genus of catsharks, and part of the family Scyliorhinidae, commonly known as swellsharks because of their ability to inflate their bodies with water or air as a defense against predators. These sluggish, bottom-dwelling sharks are found widely in the tropical and temperate coastal waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. They have stocky, spindle-shaped bodies and short, broad, and flattened heads. The mouth is capacious, containing many small teeth and lacking furrows at the corners. The two dorsal fins are placed far back on the body, with the first much larger than the

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GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassElasmobranchii
  4. OrderCarcharhiniformes
  5. FamilyScyliorhinidae
Habitatmarine
Observations recorded97,401

Cephaloscyllium es un género de tiburones de la familia scyliorhinidae. Índice 1 Especies 2 Véase también 3 Referencias 4 Bibliografía 5 Enlaces externos Especies Cephaloscyllium albipinnum (Last, Motomura & White, 2008)[2]​ Cephaloscyllium cooki (Last, Séret & White, 2008)[3]​ Cephaloscyllium fasciatum (Chan, 1966)[4]​ Cephaloscyllium hiscosellum (White & Ebert, 2008)[5]​ Cephaloscyllium isabellum (Bonnaterre, 1788) Cephaloscyllium laticeps (Duméril, 1853) Cephaloscyllium maculatum (Schaaf-Da Silva & Ebert, 2008)[6]​ Cephaloscyllium pardelotum (Schaaf-Da Silva & Ebert, 2008)[6]​ Cephaloscyllium parvum (Inoue & Nakaya, 2006)[7]​ Cephaloscyllium pictum (Last, Séret & White, 2008)[3]​ Cephaloscyllium signourum (Last, Séret & White, 2008)[3]​ Cephaloscyllium silasi (Talwar, 1974) Cephaloscyllium speccum (Last, Séret & White, 2008)[8]​ Cephaloscyllium sufflans (Regan, 1921) Cephaloscyllium umbratile (Jordan & Fowler, 1903) Cephaloscyllium variegatum (Last & White, 2008)[9]​ Cephaloscyllium ventriosum (Garman, 1880)[10]​ Cephaloscyllium zebrum (Last & White, 2008)[9]​[11]​[12]​[13]​[14]​[15]​[16]​ Véase también Anexo:Taxonomía de los tibur

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Specimen records
38
With media
1
Family
Scyliorhinidae
Collections
SIO, CAS, LSUMZ, NMV, SAMA, NHMUK
Recorded in
Chile, Mexico, Philippines, Taiwan, Australia, Chinese Taipei, Vietnam, Nouvelle-Caledonie
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Cephaloscyllium is a genus of catsharks, and part of the family Scyliorhinidae, commonly known as swellsharks because of their ability to inflate their bodies with water or air as a defense against predators. These sluggish, bottom-dwelling sharks are found widely in the tropical and temperate coastal waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. They have stocky, spindle-shaped bodies and short, broad, and flattened heads. The mouth is capacious, containing many small teeth and lacking furrows at the corners. The two dorsal fins are placed far back on the body, with the first much larger than the second. Different species have various color patterns of saddles, blotches, reticulations, and/or spots. The largest members of the genus can grow over in length. Swellsharks prey on a variety of fishes and invertebrates, and are oviparous, with females producing egg capsules in pairs. They are harmless and have been deemed of having no commercial value.

==Taxonomy== The genus Cephaloscyllium was proposed by American ichthyologist Theodore Gill from the Greek kephale ("head") and skylion ("dogfish"), in an 1862 issue of Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. However, most of Gill's contemporaries, particularly those in Europe, preferred to keep the swellsharks within the genus Scyllium (a synonym of Scyliorhinus). Cephaloscyllium did not gain wide acceptance until Samuel Garman published "The Plagiostomia" in a 1913 volume of Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, in which he recognized three species: C. isabellum, C. ventriosum, and C. umbratile.

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