Scyliorhinus

Scyliorhinus is a genus of catsharks in the family Scyliorhinidae. This genus is known in the fossil records from the Cretaceous period, late Albian age to the Pliocene epoch.

==Species== There are currently 16 recognized species in this genus: Scyliorhinus boa Goode & T. H. Bean, 1896 (boa catshark) Scyliorhinus cabofriensis K. D. A. Soares, U. L. Gomes & M. R. de Carvalho, 2016 Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758) (small-spotted catshark) Scyliorhinus capensis (J. P. Müller & Henle, 1838) (yellowspotted catshark) Scyliorhinus cervigoni Maurin & M. Bonnet, 1970 (West African catshark) Scyliorhinus comoroensis L. J. V. Compagno, 1988 (Comoro catshark) Scyliorhinus garmani (Fowler, 1934) (brownspotted catshark) Scyliorhinus hachijoensis (Ito, Fujii, Nohara & Tanaka, 2022) (cinder cloudy catshark) Scyliorhinus haeckelii (A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1907) (freckled catshark) Scyliorhinus hesperius S. Springer, 1966 (whitesaddled catshark) Scyliorhinus meadi S. Springer, 1966 (blotched catshark) Scyliorhinus retifer (Garman, 1881) (chain catshark) Scyliorhinus stellaris (Linnaeus, 1758) (nursehound) Scyliorhinus tokubee Shirai, S. Hagiwara & Nakaya, 1992 (Izu catshark) Scyliorhinus torazame (S. Tanaka (I), 1908) (cloudy catshark) Scyliorhinus torrei Howell-Rivero, 1936 (dwarf catshark) Scyliorhinus ugoi K. D. A. Soares, Gadig & U. L. Gomes, 2015 (dark freckled catshark)