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
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-03-17
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Galeus polli
Cadenat, 1959
African Sawtail Catshark
Galeus polli
Cadenat, 1959: 396
, figs. 1–4, 7–18.
Syntypes
: (17, plus young)
MNHN 1959-0044
;
MNHN 1959- 0045
.
Type locality: off
Senegal
,
West Africa
.
Local synonymy
:
Galeus polli
:
Compagno
et al
., 2005
: 299
, fig., pl. 37;
Ebert
et al
., 2013
a: 345, fig., pl. 45;
Ebert, 2015: 148
, fig. 163; Ebert & Mostada, 2015: 47, fig.;
Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 147
;
Compagno, 2016: 1265
, fig.;
Weigmann, 2016: 875
.
South Africa
voucher material
: Uncatalogued specimens at
SAM
from the
Northern Cape Province
, west coast of
South Africa
.
South African distribution
: Known from a few specimens collected during research survey cruises south of the Orange River, off the NC, west coast of
South Africa
(
Ebert, 2015
).
Remarks
: The species is most common from about central
Namibia
northwards, but is less common south of L̹deritz,
Namibia
, where it is replaced by
Holohalaelurus regani
and
Scyliorhinus capensis
(
Compagno
et al
., 1991
;
Ebert, 2015
).
Conservation status
: LC (2004).