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Issue: Vol. 1657 No. 1: 7 Dec. 2007
Type: Articles
Published: 2007-12-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1657.1.2
Page range: 23–39
Abstract views: 31
PDF downloaded: 1

Four new species of deep-water catsharks of the genus Parmaturus (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) from New Caledonia, Indonesia and Australia

Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Département Systématique et Evolution, UMS 602 “Taxonomie et Collections”, 55 rue Buffon, Case postale 51, 75231 Paris cedex 05, France
CSIRO Marine Laboratories, GPO Box 1538, Hobart, TAS 7000, Australia
Pisces Scyliorhinidae Parmaturus albimarginatus Parmaturus albipenis Parmaturus bigus Parmaturus lanatus New Caledonia Indonesia Australia deep-water catsharks new species

Abstract

Four new species of rare scyliorhinid catsharks are provisionally assigned to the genus Parmaturus: P. lanatus sp. nov. from Indonesia, P. albimarginatus sp. nov. and P. albipenis sp. nov. from northern New Caledonia, and P. bigus sp. nov. from northeastern Australia. These species differ from each other by a combination of body morphology, denticle shape, dentition, colour and vertebral counts. An identification key to the Indo–Pacific Parmaturus species is provided. Comments on the diagnostic features separating the genera Halaelurus and Parmaturus are given.

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