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Common names: Australian swellshark, Draughtboard shark, Flopguts
Occurrence: endemic
Salinity: marine
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Aquaculture: | Ref:
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Known from the Recherche Archipelago (Western Australia) to Jervis Bay (N.S.W.) including the Bass Strait, Victoria, and South Australia,Great Australian Bight (Ref. 7300).
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/as.html
National Fisheries Authority: http://www.csiro.au/
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Last, P.R. and J.D. Stevens, 1994
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Holbiche gressouillette, Pejegato australiano, قِرش مُنتفِخ أُسترالي, ... more

Classificação / Names Nomes comuns | Sinónimos | Catalog of Fishes(Género, Espécies) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Elasmobranchii (tubarões e raias) (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); laticeps: latus (L.), wide or broad; ceps (New Latin), head, referring to its broad, parabola-shaped head. (See ETYFish).
More on author: Duméril.

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

marinhas demersal; intervalo de profundidade 1 - 220 m. Temperate; 32°S - 44°S

Distribuição Países | Áreas FAO | Ecossistemas | Ocorrências | Point map | Introduções | Faunafri

Eastern Indian Ocean: southern Australia, from Western Australia to New South Wales.

Length at first maturity / Tamanho / Peso / Idade

Maturity: L_m ?, range 82 - ? cm
Max length : 150 cm TL macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 6871)

Descrição breve Chaves de identificação | Morfologia | Morfometria

Vértebras: 129 - 138. Head short and very broad. Body robust with inflatable stomach; with dark, mottled and blotched color pattern, and mostly with a dark median stripe on the belly. Labial furrows absent. Denticles large and widely spaced.

Found on the continental shelf from close inshore in shallow to deeper water. Oviparous, hatching at about 14 cm (Ref. 6871). Can expand itself with air or water. Caught by commercial bottom trawlers but of no use to fisheries at present.

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturities | Reprodução | Spawnings | Egg(s) | Fecundities | Larvas

Oviparous, paired eggs are laid. Embryos feed solely on yolk (Ref. 50449).

Referência principal Upload your references | Referências | Coordenador : Compagno, Leonard J.V. | Colaboradores

Compagno, L.J.V., 1984. FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 4. Sharks of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of shark species known to date. Part 2 - Carcharhiniformes. FAO Fish. Synop. 125(4/2):251-655. Rome: FAO. (Ref. 244)

Categoria na Lista Vermelha da IUCN (Ref. 130435)

Preocupação menor (LC) ; Date assessed: 08 April 2015

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)