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Common names: Pating
Occurrence: questionable
Salinity: marine
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Importance: of no interest | Ref:
Aquaculture: | Ref:
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Recorded from the Philippines during the MUSORSTOM March 1976 cruise (Ref. 5280). Reported from the country in the South China Sea (Ref. 94801). Occurrence needs further confirmation (M. Alava pers. Comm,).
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Alava, M.N.R., J.P.A. Gaudiano, J.A. Utzurrum, E.E.C. Capuli, M.T.R. Aquino, M.M.A. Luchavez-Maypa and M.D. Santos, 2014
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Holbiche bouffie, Pejegato mallero, 网纹绒毛鲨, ... more

Classificação / Names Nomes comuns | Sinónimos | Catalog of Fishes(Género, Espécies) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Elasmobranchii (tubarões e raias) (sharks and rays) > Carcharhiniformes (Ground sharks) > Scyliorhinidae (Cat sharks) > Scyliorhininae
Etymology: Cephaloscyllium: cephalus, from kephale (Gr.), head, referring to its very broad and depressed head; skylion, Greek for dogfish or small shark. (See ETYFish); fasciatum: Latin for banded, referring to variegated color pattern of open saddles and circles with connecting dark lines. (See ETYFish).

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecologia

marinhas associadas(os) a recifes; intervalo de profundidade 200 - 450 m (Ref. 106604). Deep-water; 21°N - 28°S

Distribuição Países | Áreas FAO | Ecossistemas | Ocorrências | Point map | Introduções | Faunafri

Western Pacific: East and South China seas (off South Taiwan, China, Philippines, Vietnam).

Length at first maturity / Tamanho / Peso / Idade

Maturity: L_m ?, range 36 - ? cm
Max length : 42.0 cm TL macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 244)

Descrição breve Chaves de identificação | Morfologia | Morfometria

This species is distinguished by the following characters: dorsal sides of body and fins with complex reticulations, with eight open-centered dark brown saddles on body, the first saddle immediately behind eye, second one above gill openings, the third above inner margin of pectoral fin, fourth saddle above middle between pectoral and pelvic finsl dorsal sides of pectoral and pelvic fins with a loop pattern (Ref. 94801).

Found in fairly deep water on or near the bottom on the outer continental shelf and uppermost slope (Ref. 244). Minimum depth from Ref. 58018. Can expand itself with air or water (Ref. 244). Oviparous (Ref. 50449). Size at sexual maturity according to literature and specimens studied, for males 36.0 cm and for females less than 42.1 cm with maximum size at least 421 cm TL (Ref. 80388).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturities | Reprodução | Spawnings | Egg(s) | Fecundities | Larvas

Oviparous, paired eggs are laid. Embryos feed solely on yolk (Ref. 50449). Young hatch at about 12 cm (Ref. 6871).

Referência principal Upload your references | Referências | Coordenador : Compagno, Leonard J.V. | Colaboradores

Compagno, L.J.V., 1984. FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 4. Sharks of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of shark species known to date. Part 2 - Carcharhiniformes. FAO Fish. Synop. 125(4/2):251-655. Rome: FAO. (Ref. 244)

Categoria na Lista Vermelha da IUCN (Ref. 130435)

Criticamente ameaçada (CR) (A2d); Date assessed: 21 November 2019

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)