Centroscymnus

Taxonavigation: Squaliformes

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Classis: Chondrichthyes Subclassis: Elasmobranchii Infraclassis: Euselachii Division/Cohort: Neoselachii Subdivision/Subcohort: Selachimorpha Superordo: Squalomorphii Ordo: Squaliformes

Familia: Somniosidae
Genus: Centroscymnus

Species: C. coelolepis – C. owstonii – †C. praecursor – †C. schmidi

Name

Centroscymnus Barbosa du Bocage & de Brito Capello, 1864

• Type species: Centroscymnus coelolepis Barbosa du Bocage & de Brito Capello, 1864

Etymology: from kentron (= thorn or spine), referring to spines on both dorsal fins, and scymnus, an ancient name for some kind of shark, derived from Greek word for lion cub. (From The ETYFish project)

References

• Barbosa du Bocage, J. V. & de Brito Capello, F. 1864. Sur quelques espèces inédites de Squalidae de la tribu Acanthiana, Gray, qui fréquentent les côtes du Portugal. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1864(2): 260–263. BHL Reference page. 

Links

• Centroscymnus and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2025. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Centroscymnus species list in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2025. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.