Scyliorhinus hesperius, Whitesaddled catshark

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Scyliorhinus hesperius Springer, 1966

Whitesaddled catshark
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Scyliorhinus hesperius
Female picture by Brown, B.

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Élasmobranches (requins et raies) (sharks and rays) > Carcharhiniformes (Ground sharks) > Scyliorhinidae (Cat sharks) > Scyliorhininae
Etymology: Scyliorhinus: skylion, Greek for dogfish or small shark; rhinus, from rhine (Gr.), rasp, alluding to a shark’s jagged, rasp-like skin. (See ETYFish);  hesperius: Latin for western, from hesperos (Gr.), evening star, probably referring to its occurrence in the western Atlantic, the western Caribbean, and/or off the coast of western Panama. (See ETYFish).

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