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Heterodontus marshallae White, Mollen, O’Neill, Yang & Naylor, 2023
Painted hornshark
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa
Elasmobranchii (sharks and rays) > Heterodontiformes (Bullhead and horn sharks) > Heterodontidae (Bullhead, horn, or Port Jackson sharks)
Etymology: Heterodontus: heteros (Gr.), different; odontos (Gr.), tooth, referring to pointy teeth (for clutching prey) at front of jaws, different than rounded molar-like teeth (for grinding hard-shelled invertebrates) at the back (See ETYFish); marshallae: Named for Dr. Lindsay Marshall, scientific illustrator and elasmobranch scientist who expertly painted all the sharks and rays of the world for the Chondrichthyan Tree of Life Project.
Etymology: Heterodontus: heteros (Gr.), different; odontos (Gr.), tooth, referring to pointy teeth (for clutching prey) at front of jaws, different than rounded molar-like teeth (for grinding hard-shelled invertebrates) at the back (See ETYFish); marshallae: Named for Dr. Lindsay Marshall, scientific illustrator and elasmobranch scientist who expertly painted all the sharks and rays of the world for the Chondrichthyan Tree of Life Project.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology
Marine; reef-associated; depth range 125 - 229 m (Ref. 129794). Subtropical
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Eastern Indian Ocean: Western Australia.
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This small species of hornshark is distinguished by the following set of characters: the colour
pattern consists of 22 dark bands and saddles; snout with a semicircular dark bar, often bifurcated for most of its length; without dark bar below posterior gill slits extending onto anterior pectoral fin; the anal fin is well separated from caudal fin (anal-caudal space 11.0-13.5% TL); ventral lobe of caudal fin is prominent (lower postventral margin 4.7-6.1% TL); dorsal spines are long with exposed first dorsal spine length 3.9-4.5% TL; dorsal fins are taller in juveniles than in adults; symphyseal and anterior teeth are pointed, lateral teeth molariform with a longitudinal keel; tooth files in upper jaw 20-22, in lower jaw 17-19; total vertebral centra 106-112, precaudal centra 70-76, monospondylous centra 33-37; egg case with narrow, curved, screw-like keels and with 1.5 rotations from anterior to posterior margins (Ref. 129794).
Specimens ranged from 35.5-60.1 cm TL, an immature male at 43.2 cm TL and mature ones at 55.5-60.1 mm TL (Ref. 129794).
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Main reference
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White, W.T., F.H. Mollen, H.L. O'Neill, L. Yang and G.J.P. Naylor, 2023. Species in disguise: A new species of Hornshark from northern Australia (Heterodontiformes: Heterodontidae). Diversity 15(849):1-27. (Ref. 129794)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)
Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 10 January 2024
CITES
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
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AFORO (otoliths) | Aquatic Commons | BHL | Cloffa | BOLDSystems | Websites from users | Check FishWatcher | CISTI | Catalog of Fishes: genus, species | DiscoverLife | ECOTOX | FAO - Publication: search | Faunafri | Fishipedia | Fishtrace | GenBank: genome, nucleotide | GloBI | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | IGFA World Record | MitoFish | Otolith Atlas of Taiwan Fishes | PubMed | Reef Life Survey | Socotra Atlas | Tree of Life | Wikipedia: Go, Search | World Records Freshwater Fishing | Zoobank | Zoological Record
Estimates based on models
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD50 = No PD50 data [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00380 (0.00165 - 0.00876), b=3.15 (2.95 - 3.35), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.5 ±0.6 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Resilience (Ref. 120179): Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Moderate vulnerability (44 of 100).