New insights into the identities of the elasmobranch fauna of Sri Lanka
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Fernando, Daniel
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Bown, Rosalind M. K.
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Tanna, Akshay
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Gobiraj, Ramajeyam
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Ralicki, Hannah
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Jockusch, Elizabeth L.
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Ebert, David A.
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Jensen, Kirsten
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Caira, Janine N.
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-04-12
4585
2
201
238
journal article
27326
10.11646/zootaxa.4585.2.1
86f58653-808d-45ee-bba8-2706327e1afd
1175-5326
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Centroscymnus owstonii
Garman
(
Figs. 5F
,
19
A–C)
Two specimens (SL-92 and SL-93) of
Centroscymnus
Barboza du Bocage & de Brito Capello
were also collected from the deep-sea longline landing site in Mutur in the Eastern Province. Morphologically these specimens are consistent with
Centroscymnus owstonii
following
Weigmann
et al
. (2016)
. In the tree resulting from our Neighbor-Joining analysis of NADH2 data, these specimens grouped most closely with our reference specimen of
C. owstonii
from
Portugal
. The two specimens from
Sri Lanka
differ from each other by 2 bp; one is identical to the reference specimen. A mature male has been deposited in the BRT Ichthyology Collection (SL-93; BRT-I 0024).
To our knowledge, this is the first documented report of this family, genus, and species from
Sri Lanka
. It is also the first record of this genus from the northern Indian Ocean.