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Cephaloscyllium formosanum Teng, 1962

Formosa swellshark
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Classification / Names Nombres comunes | Sinónimos | Catalog of Fishes(Género, Especie) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Elasmobranquios (tiburones y rayas) (sharks and rays) > Carcharhiniformes (Ground sharks) > Scyliorhinidae (Cat sharks) > Scyliorhininae
Etymology: Cephaloscyllium: cephalus, from kephale (Gr.), head, referring to its very broad and depressed head; skylion, Greek for dogfish or small shark. (See ETYFish);  formosanum: --anum, Latin adjectival suffix that means, when attached to a name, “belonging to”: Formosa, or Taiwan, referring to type locality off southwestern coast of Taiwan. (See ETYFish).

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecología

marino asociado a arrecife; rango de profundidad ? - 366 m (Ref. 94801).   Subtropical

Distribución Países | Áreas FAO | Ecosistemas | Ocurrencias, apariciones | Point map | Introducciones | Faunafri

Northwest Pacific: Taiwan.

Tamaño / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 65.6 cm TL (female)

Short description Morfología | Morfometría

This species is distinguished by the following characters: with four broad dark saddle blotches before first dorsal fin, the first saddle just behind eye, second saddle over gill openings, third saddle above inner margin of pectoral fin and fourth above pelvic fin origin; presence of a narrow dark band between third and fourth saddle blotches; body with numerous small white spots; margins of egg case indented (Ref. 94801).

Biología     Glosario (por ej. epibenthic)

A medium-sized species that matures at size less than 65 cm TL (Ref. 94801).

Life cycle and mating behavior Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva

Main reference Upload your references | Referencias | Coordinador : Compagno, Leonard J.V. | Colaboradores

Nakaya, K., S. Inque and H.-C. Ho, 2013. A review of the genus Cephaloscyllium (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) from Taiwanese waters. Zootaxa 3752(1):101-129. (Ref. 94801)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 27 August 2019

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless




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Estimates based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = No PD50 data   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00263 (0.00139 - 0.00497), b=3.21 (3.04 - 3.38), in cm Total Length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).
Nivel trófico (Ref. 69278):  4.1   ±0.5 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Resiliencia (Ref. 120179):  Medio, población duplicada en un tiempo mínimo de 1.4-4.4 años (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Moderate to high vulnerability (46 of 100).