Mustelus asterias

Familia: Triakidae
Genus: Mustelus
Species: Mustelus asterias

Mustelus asterias

Taxonavigation: Carcharhiniformes

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Classis: Chondrichthyes Subclassis: Elasmobranchii Infraclassis: Euselachii Division/Cohort: Neoselachii Subdivision/Subcohort: Selachimorpha Superordo: Galeomorphii Ordo: Carcharhiniformes

Name

Mustelus asterias Cloquet, 1819

• No types known.

Type locality: Europe (including Marseille, France and Lesbos, Greece, Mediterranean Sea).

Synonyms

• Squalus hinnulus Blainville, 1825
• Mustelus stellatus Risso, 1827
• Mustelus plebejus Bonaparte, 1834
• Mustelus vulgaris Müller & Henle, 1839
• Squalus albomaculatus Plucàr, 1846

Vernacular names

English: Starry Smooth-hound

References

• Brevé, N.W.P., Winter, H.V., Van Overzee, H.M.J., Farrell, E.D. & Walker, P.A. 2016. Seasonal migration of the starry smooth-hound shark Mustelus asterias as revealed from tag-recapture data of an angler-led tagging programme. Journal of Fish Biology 89(2): 1158–1177. DOI: 10.1111/jfb.12994 Reference page. 
• Cloquet, H., 1816-30: [Pisces accounts.] In: Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles. Volumes 1-60. [Initials after accounts correspond to authors given in Vol. 1; fish accounts by Lacepède (L. L.), Duméril (C. D.), Daudin (F. M. D.) and Cloquet (H. C.)]. Reference page. 

Links

• Mustelus asterias in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Mustelus asterias in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

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