Species: Scyliorhinus haeckelii, Freckled catshark
Scyliorhinus haeckelii (Miranda Ribeiro, 1907)
Freckled catshark
Head and body relatively slender; crest over horizontally oval eye; anterior nasal flaps not expanded and do not reach mouth; labial furrows on lower jaw only; first dorsal fin origin just behind pelvic insertions; second dorsal fin much smaller than first, origin just anterior to anal fin insertion; space between dorsals slightly greater than anal-fin base; skin denticles small and flat, surface of skin relatively smooth.
Body with 7 or 8 dusky, well defined saddles, numerous tiny (<pupil) black spots scattered over the upper body.
Size: 50 cm.
Lives on continental shelves.
Depth: 37-439 m, usually below 250 m.
Distribution: the southern Caribbean to Uruguay
Note: the form found in our area likely is a different species to S. haeckelii, which may be restricted to Brazil and Uruguay.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef and soft bottom
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Sand & gravel
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Mud
- Rocks
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- No Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Mobile benthic worms
- Octopus/squid/cuttlefish
- Bony fishes
- Egg Type
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- Data
- No pelagic larva
- Benthic
- No pelagic phase
- Global Endemism
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- West Atlantic Endemic
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Extends South of GC
- Also in Brazil
- GC non-endemic
- Continent
- Continent only
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Temperate (>35N)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Data deficient
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 50
- Depth Range Min
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- 37
- Depth Range Max
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- 439
