Cephaloscyllium hiscosellum, Australian reticulate swellshark

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Cephaloscyllium hiscosellum White & Ebert, 2008

Australian reticulate swellshark
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Cephaloscyllium hiscosellum   AquaMaps   Data sources: GBIF OBIS
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Cephaloscyllium hiscosellum
Male picture by White, W.T. & D.A. Ebert

Classification / Names Populärnamn | synonymer | Catalog of Fishes(Släkte, Arter) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Elasmobranchii (hajar och rockor) (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);  hiscosellum: hisco (L.), open; sella (L.), saddle, referring to distinctive open-centered saddle-like markings that dominate its color pattern. (See ETYFish).

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


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