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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classElasmobranchii
  4. ›orderCarcharhiniformes
  5. ›familyScyliorhinidae
  6. ›genusHalaelurus
Halaelurus lineatus
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Lined Catshark

Halaelurus lineatus Bass, D'Aubrey & Kistnasamy, 1975

Also calledBand-kathaai (afr) · Gattuccio rigato (ita) · Gebänderter Katzenhai (deu) · Holbiche Des Plages (fra) · Pejegato Playero (spa) · Tubarão-gato-esbelto (por) · máčka durbanská (ces) · Полосатая пятнистая акула (rus)

First described in: Bass, A. J., J. D. D'Aubrey & N. Kistnasamy. 1975. Sharks of the east coast of southern Africa. II. The families Scyliorhinidae and Pseudotriakidae. Investigative Reports of the Oceanographic Research Institute Durban(37): 1-63.

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

discussion

Remarks: A common coastal catshark frequently caught by shore anglers and by commercial offshore trawlers. Conservation status: LC (2019).

An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa

materials_examined

South Africa voucher material: Holotype: SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 6148 [ex ORI 2935]. Paratypes: SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 6161 [ex ORI 2614] (1, hatched from egg case), 6162 [ex ORI 2619] (1, hatched from egg case), 6147 [ex ORI 2936]. South African distribution: East London (EC) to the KZN border with Mozambique.

An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2418529.