Apristurus
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Genus of sharks
| Apristurus | |
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| Above: Deepwater catshark (A. profundorum) Below: Ghost catshark (A. manis) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Division: | Selachii |
| Order: | Carcharhiniformes |
| Family: | Pentanchidae |
| Genus: | Apristurus Garman, 1913 |
| Type species | |
| Scylliorhinus indicus Brauer, 1906 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Apristurus is a genus of catsharks, the family Pentanchidae, the deepwater catsharks. The species in this genus are commonly known as the ghost or demon catsharks.
The 43 currently recognized species in this genus are:[1][2][3]
- Apristurus albisoma Nakaya & Séret, 1999 (white-bodied catshark)
- Apristurus ampliceps Sasahara, Sato & Nakaya, 2008 (roughskin catshark)
- Apristurus aphyodes Nakaya & Stehmann, 1998 (white ghost catshark)
- Apristurus australis Sato, Nakaya & Yorozu, 2008 (Pinocchio catshark)
- Apristurus breviventralis Kawauchi, Weigmann & Nakaya, 2014 (shortbelly catshark) [4]
- Apristurus brunneus C. H. Gilbert, 1892 (brown catshark)
- Apristurus bucephalus W. T. White, Last & Pogonoski, 2008 (bighead catshark)
- Apristurus canutus S. Springer & Heemstra, 1979 (hoary catshark)
- Apristurus exsanguis Sato, Nakaya & A. L. Stewart, 1999 (flaccid catshark)
- Apristurus fedorovi Dolganov, 1985 (Fedorov's catshark)
- Apristurus garricki Sato, A.L. Stewart & Nakaya, 2013 (Garrick's catshark) [5]
- Apristurus gibbosus Y. T. Chu, Q. W. Meng & S. Li, 1985 (humpback catshark)
- Apristurus herklotsi Fowler, 1934 (longfin catshark)
- Apristurus indicus A. B. Brauer, 1906 (smallbelly catshark)
- Apristurus internatus S. M. Deng, G. Q. Xiong & H. X. Zhan, 1988 (shortnose demon catshark)
- Apristurus investigatoris Misra, 1962 (broadnose catshark)
- Apristurus iterum White, O’Neill & Jayasinghe, 2025 (Copy catshark)[6]
- Apristurus japonicus Nakaya, 1975 (Japanese catshark)
- Apristurus kampae L. R. Taylor, 1972 (longnose catshark)
- Apristurus laurussonii Sæmundsson, 1922 (Iceland catshark)
- Apristurus longicephalus Nakaya, 1975 (longhead catshark)
- Apristurus macrorhynchus S. Tanaka (I), 1909 (flathead catshark)
- Apristurus macrostomus Q. W. Meng, Y. T. Chu & S. Li, 1985 (broadmouth catshark)
- Apristurus manis S. Springer, 1979 (ghost catshark)
- Apristurus manocheriani Cordova & Ebert 2021, (Manocherian's Catshark)
- Apristurus melanoasper Iglésias, Nakaya & Stehmann, 2004 (black roughscale catshark)
- Apristurus microps Gilchrist, 1922 (smalleye catshark)
- Apristurus micropterygeus Q. W. Meng, Y. T. Chu & S. Li, 1986 (smalldorsal catshark)
- Apristurus nakayai Iglésias, 2013 (milk-eye catshark) [7]
- Apristurus nasutus F. de Buen, 1959 (largenose catshark)
- Apristurus ovicorrugatus White, O'Neill, Devloo-Delva, Nakaya & Iglésias, 2023 (ridged-egg catshark)
- Apristurus parvipinnis S. Springer, 1979 & Heemstra, 1979 (smallfin catshark)
- Apristurus pinguis S. M. Deng, G. Q. Xiong & H. X. Zhan, 1983 (bulldog catshark)
- Apristurus platyrhynchus S. Tanaka (I), 1909 (spatulasnout catshark or Borneo catshark)
- Apristurus profundorum Goode & T. H. Bean, 1896 (deepwater catshark)
- Apristurus riveri Bigelow & Schroeder, 1944 (broadgill catshark)
- Apristurus saldanha Barnard, 1925 (Saldanha catshark)
- †Apristurus sereti Adnet, 2006[8][9]
- Apristurus sibogae M. C. W. Weber, 1913 (pale catshark)
- Apristurus sinensis Y. T. Chu & A. S. Hu, 1981 (South China catshark)
- Apristurus spongiceps C. H. Gilbert, 1905 (spongehead catshark)
- Apristurus stenseni S. Springer, 1979, 1979 (Panama ghost catshark)
- Apristurus yangi White, Mana & Naylor, 2017 (Yang’s longnose catshark)
- Apristurus sp. X Not yet described (Galbraith's catshark)
- Apristurus sp. 3 Not yet described (black wonder catshark)
- Apristurus sp. nov. Not yet described (white-edged catshark)
- Apristurus sp. Not yet described (gray ghost catshark)
References
- ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Apristurus". FishBase. November 2024 version.
- ↑ S. Weigmann (10 February 2016). "Annotated checklist of the living sharks, batoids and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes) of the world, with a focus on biogeographical diversity". Journal of Fish Biology. 88 (3): 837–1037. doi:10.1111/JFB.12874. ISSN 0022-1112. PMID 26860638. Wikidata Q35918688.
- ↑ JUSTIN A. CORDOVA; DAVID A. EBERT (7 July 2021). "Apristurus manocheriani (Carcharhiniformes: Pentanchidae), a new species of catshark from the Southwest Indian Ocean" (PDF). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation. 38. doi:10.5281/ZENODO.5081131. ISSN 1937-7835. Wikidata Q107529870.
- ↑ Kawauchi, J.; Weigmann, S. & Nakaya, K. (2014). "Apristurus breviventralis, a new species of deep-water catshark (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) from the Gulf of Aden" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3881 (1): 1–16. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3881.1.1. PMID 25543616.
- ↑ Sato, K.; Stewart, A.L.; Nakaya, K. (2013). "Apristurus garricki sp. nov., a new deep-water catshark from the northern New Zealand waters (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae". Marine Biology Research. 9 (8): 758–767. Bibcode:2013MBioR...9..758S. doi:10.1080/17451000.2013.765586.
- ↑ White, William T.; O'Neill, Helen L.; Jayasinghe, Sahan A. (November 2025). "Apristurus iterum , a new shark discovered based on egg case morphology and sequence data obtained from a formalin‐fixed specimen". Journal of Fish Biology. 107 (5): 1624–1640. doi:10.1111/jfb.70147. ISSN 0022-1112. PMC 12710850. PMID 40717281.
- ↑ Iglésias, S.P. (2013). "Apristurus nakayai sp. nov., a new species of deepwater catshark (Chondrichthyes: Pentanchidae) from New Caledonia". Cybium. 36 (4): 511–519.
- ↑ "Extinct - valid species | Species | Shark-References". shark-references.com. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
- ↑ "†Apristurus sereti Adnet 2006 (cat shark)". The Paleobiology Database.