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<mods:title>Halaelurus maculosus n. sp. and H. sellus n. sp., two new species of catshark (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) from the Indo-West Pacific.</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>William T. White</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Peter R. Last</mods:namePart>
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[[ Genus
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The genus
<taxonomicName LSID-ZBK="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:EF8B4C66-B5D8-494A-A976-671A4547EB5E" class="Elasmobranchii" family="Scyliorhinidae" genus="Halaelurus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-ZBK="Halaelurus Gill 1862:407" order="Carcharhiniformes" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Halaelurus</taxonomicName>
, proposed by Gill (1862) for
<taxonomicName LSID-ZBK="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:DA18562A-1826-4A25-A68A-9C981B948145" class="Elasmobranchii" family="Scyliorhinidae" genus="Scyllium" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-ZBK="Scyllium buergeri Müller &amp; Henle 1838:8" order="Carcharhiniformes" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="buergeri">
Scyllium buergeri
<normalizedToken originalValue="Müller">Mueller</normalizedToken>
&amp; Henle, 1838
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, consists of 5 described species:
<taxonomicName LSID-ZBK="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:7B93E5DF-87DD-483D-8281-E80D93969483" class="Elasmobranchii" family="Scyliorhinidae" genus="Halaelurus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-ZBK="Halaelurus boesemani Springer &amp; D'Aubrey 1972:11" order="Carcharhiniformes" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="boesemani">H. boesemani Springer &amp; DAubrey, 1972</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName class="Elasmobranchii" family="Scyliorhinidae" genus="Halaelurus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carcharhiniformes" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="buergeri">
H. buergeri
<normalizedToken originalValue="Müller">Mueller</normalizedToken>
&amp; Henle, 1838
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName LSID-ZBK="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:37E93C92-A664-4763-B9FD-2C06F52224D8" class="Elasmobranchii" family="Scyliorhinidae" genus="Halaelurus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-ZBK="Halaelurus lineatus Bass, D'Aubrey &amp; Kistnasamy 1975:12" order="Carcharhiniformes" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="lineatus">H. lineatus Bass, D'Aubrey &amp; Kistnasamy, 1975</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName class="Elasmobranchii" family="Scyliorhinidae" genus="Halaelurus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carcharhiniformes" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="natalensis">H. natalensis (Regan, 1904)</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName class="Elasmobranchii" family="Scyliorhinidae" genus="Halaelurus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carcharhiniformes" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="quagga">H. quagga (Alcock, 1899)</taxonomicName>
(Compagno, 1988; Compagno et al., 2005). The closely related genus
<taxonomicName LSID-ZBK="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:768441F0-034A-4C1E-A912-BFA063C0AFD0" class="Elasmobranchii" family="Scyliorhinidae" genus="Bythaelurus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-ZBK="Bythaelurus Halaelurus Compagno 1988:146" order="Carcharhiniformes" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Bythaelurus Compagno, 1988</taxonomicName>
, previously a subgenus of
<taxonomicName LSID-ZBK="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:EF8B4C66-B5D8-494A-A976-671A4547EB5E" class="Elasmobranchii" family="Scyliorhinidae" genus="Halaelurus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-ZBK="Halaelurus Gill 1862:407" order="Carcharhiniformes" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Halaelurus</taxonomicName>
, comprises 7 described species:
<taxonomicName class="Elasmobranchii" family="Scyliorhinidae" genus="Bythaelurus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carcharhiniformes" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="alcocki">B. alcocki (Garman, 1913)</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName class="Elasmobranchii" family="Scyliorhinidae" genus="Bythaelurus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carcharhiniformes" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="canescens">
B. canescens (
<normalizedToken originalValue="Günther">Guenther</normalizedToken>
, 1878)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName class="Elasmobranchii" family="Scyliorhinidae" genus="Bythaelurus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carcharhiniformes" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="clevai">
B. clevai (
<normalizedToken originalValue="Séret">Seret</normalizedToken>
, 1987)
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName class="Elasmobranchii" family="Scyliorhinidae" genus="Bythaelurus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carcharhiniformes" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="dawsoni">B. dawsoni (Springer, 1971)</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName class="Elasmobranchii" family="Scyliorhinidae" genus="Bythaelurus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carcharhiniformes" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="hispidus">B. hispidus (Alcock, 1891)</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName class="Elasmobranchii" family="Scyliorhinidae" genus="Bythaelurus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carcharhiniformes" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="immaculatus">B. immaculatus (Chu &amp; Meng in Chu et al., 1982)</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName class="Elasmobranchii" family="Scyliorhinidae" genus="Bythaelurus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carcharhiniformes" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="lutarius">B. lutarius (Springer &amp; DAubrey, 1972)</taxonomicName>
. Members of the genus
<taxonomicName LSID-ZBK="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:768441F0-034A-4C1E-A912-BFA063C0AFD0" class="Elasmobranchii" family="Scyliorhinidae" genus="Bythaelurus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-ZBK="Bythaelurus Halaelurus Compagno 1988:146" order="Carcharhiniformes" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Bythaelurus</taxonomicName>
differ from species of
<taxonomicName LSID-ZBK="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:EF8B4C66-B5D8-494A-A976-671A4547EB5E" class="Elasmobranchii" family="Scyliorhinidae" genus="Halaelurus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-ZBK="Halaelurus Gill 1862:407" order="Carcharhiniformes" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Halaelurus</taxonomicName>
in having eyes not noticeably elevated on head vs. noticeably elevated on dorsal surface of head; gill slits not elevated above lateral head margin vs. elevated above lateral head margin; body soft with thin skin vs. body firm with thick skin; precaudal tail about 0.8-0.9 of precloacal length vs. 0.5-0.6 of precloacal length (Compagno, 1988). Representatives of the genus
<taxonomicName LSID-ZBK="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:768441F0-034A-4C1E-A912-BFA063C0AFD0" class="Elasmobranchii" family="Scyliorhinidae" genus="Bythaelurus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-ZBK="Bythaelurus Halaelurus Compagno 1988:146" order="Carcharhiniformes" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Bythaelurus</taxonomicName>
are typically uniformly dark in coloration and have a scattered distribution in upper to lower slope regions of the Eastern Pacific and Indian Ocean, with a single species occurring in the Western Pacific. Members of the genus
<taxonomicName LSID-ZBK="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:EF8B4C66-B5D8-494A-A976-671A4547EB5E" class="Elasmobranchii" family="Scyliorhinidae" genus="Halaelurus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-ZBK="Halaelurus Gill 1862:407" order="Carcharhiniformes" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Halaelurus</taxonomicName>
have an attractive colour pattern and occur essentially in the Indo-West Pacific, from South Africa to Japan and Australia, in insular and continental shelf regions (Compagno, 1988; Compagno et al., 2005).
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<paragraph pageNumber="1">
Recent market surveys in eastern Indonesia produced a large collection of scyliorhinid catsharks, along with many other chondrichthyans. Included in this material were 28 individuals of a catshark that was originally identified tentatively as
<taxonomicName class="Elasmobranchii" family="Scyliorhinidae" genus="Halaelurus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carcharhiniformes" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="buergeri">Halaelurus buergeri</taxonomicName>
. Comparison of these Indonesian
<taxonomicName LSID-ZBK="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:EF8B4C66-B5D8-494A-A976-671A4547EB5E" class="Elasmobranchii" family="Scyliorhinidae" genus="Halaelurus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName-ZBK="Halaelurus Gill 1862:407" order="Carcharhiniformes" pageNumber="1" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">Halaelurus</taxonomicName>
with material from northwestern Australia revealed two new species that differ significantly from other currently recognised members of the genus. This paper provides descriptions of these new species.
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