- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classElasmobranchii
- ›orderCarcharhiniformes
- ›familyScyliorhinidae
- ›genusGaleus
Images attached to GBIF records (museum & herbarium specimens), from . Open licences; click for the record.
Atlantic sawtail catshark
Galeus atlanticus (Vaillant, 1888)
Also calledAtlantischer Geister-Katzenhai (deu) · Atlantischer Sägeschwanzhai (deu) · Chien Atlantique (fra) · Chien de mer de l'Atlantique (fra) · Gattuccio Atlantico (ita) · Gattuccio dell'Atlantico (ita) · Leitão-atlântico (por) · Pintarroja Atlántica (spa) · atlantinis pjūklauodegis katryklis (lit) · atlantinkissahai (fin) · máčka východoatlantská (ces) · olayo atlántico (spa) · Акула котяча атлантична (ukr) · антильский пилохвост (rus)
This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Galeus atlanticus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5215623.