An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa Author Ebert, David A. Author Wintner, Sabine P. 0000-0001-7350-5999 Author Kyne, Peter M. 0000-0003-4494-2625 debert@mlml.calstate.edu text Zootaxa 2021 2021-03-17 4947 1 1 127 journal article 7365 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1 74dc998a-dc7a-4b02-b43c-a2064c9c6dc2 1175-5326 4614567 7F3B4794-65CF-4691-A330-78A423F2606F Deania quadrispinosa ( McCulloch, 1915 ) Longsnout Dogfish Acanthidium quadrispinosum McCulloch, 1915: 100 , pl. 14, figs. 5–8. Type : ???. Type locality: Great Australian Bight , southern Australia . Local synonymy : Acanthidium quadrispinosum : Smith, 1937: 168 , fig. 1. Deania eglantina : Smith, 1949a: 58 , fig. 49. (in part = D. profundorum ); Smith, 1965: 58 , fig. 49. Deania quadrispinosa : Penrith, 1969: 62 ; Ebert, 2013: 75 , fig. 93; Ebert et al ., 2013 a: 109, fig., pl. 7; Ebert & Mostarda, 2013: 28 , fig.; Ebert, 2015: 66 , fig. 71; Ebert & Mostarda, 2015: 22 , fig.; Compagno, 2016: 1177 ; Weigmann, 2016: 891 . Deania quadrispinosum : Bass et al. , 1976: 37 , fig. 29 (caption as D. quadrispinosa ); Compagno, 1984a: 68 , fig.; Compagno et al ., 1989: 26 , pl.; Compagno et al ., 1991: 60 ; Compagno, 1999: 114 ; Compagno et al ., 2005 : 89 , pl. 5; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 144 . Deania quadrispinosus : Bass et al ., 1986: 54 , fig. 5.10. South Africa voucher material : SAM uncatalogued, collected during research survey and reported by Compagno et al . (1991) . South Africa distribution : A few scattered records from off Cape Town (WC), Algoa Bay (EC), and northern KZN. Remarks : Records from South Africa are few; this species appears to be more common off Mozambique and Madagascar . Conservation status : VU (2020).