Taxonavigation

Familia: Scyliorhinidae
Genus: Bythaelurus
Species: B. alcockii – B. bachi – B. canescens – B. clevai – B. dawsoni – B. giddingsi – B. hispidus – B. immaculatus – B. incanus – B. lutarius – B. naylori – B. tenuicephalus – B. vivaldii

Name

Bythaelurus Compagno, 1988

• created as a subgenus of Halaelurus

• Type species: Scyllium canescens Günther, 1878

References

• Compagno, L. J. V., 1988: Sharks of the order Carcharhiniformes. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J. i-xxii + 1-486 + 21 separate figs., Pls. 1-35.

• McCosker, J.E.; Long, D.J.; Baldwin, C.C. 2012: Description of a new species of deepwater catshark, Bythaelurus giddingsi sp. nov., from the Galápagos Islands (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae). Zootaxa, 3221: 48–59. Preview

• Weigmann, S., Ebert, D.A., Clerkin, P., Stehmann, M.F.W. & Naylor, G.J.P. 2016. Bythaelurus bachi n. sp., a new deep-water catshark (Carcharhiniformes, Scyliorhinidae) from the southwestern Indian Ocean, with a review of Bythaelurus species and a key to their identification. Zootaxa 4208(4): 401–432. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4208.5.1 ; ResearchGate. Reference page. 

• Weigmann, S., Ebert, D.A., Clerkin, P., Stehmann, M.F.W. & Naylor, G.J.P. 2017. Erratum. SIMON WEIGMANN, DAVID A. EBERT, PAUL J. CLERKIN, MATTHIAS F.W. STEHMANN & GAVIN J.P. NAYLOR (2016) Bythaelurus bachi n. sp., a new deep-water catshark Carcharhiniformes, Scyliorhinidae) from the southwestern Indian Ocean, with a review of Bythaelurus species and a key to their identification. Zootaxa, 4208 (5): 401–432. Zootaxa 4243(3): 600–600. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4243.3.11. Reference page. 

• Weigmann, S. & Kaschner, C.J. 2017. Bythaelurus vivaldii, a new deep-water catshark (Carcharhiniformes, Scyliorhinidae) from the northwestern Indian Ocean off Somalia. Zootaxa 4263(1): 97–114. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4263.1.4. Reference page.