Halaelurus lineatus Bass, D'Aubrey, & Kistnasamy 1975

Halaelurus lineatus Bass, D’Aubrey, & Kistnasamy, 1975a Lined Catshark Halaelurus lineatus Bass, D’Aubrey, & Kistnasamy, 1975a: 12, figs, 8, 20e. Holotype: SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 6148 [ex ORI 2935]. Local synonymy: Halaelurus lineatus: Bass et al., 1975a: 12, figs. 8, 20e; Springer, 1979: 79; Compagno, 1984b: 327, fig.; Bass, 1986: 90, fig. 11.5; Compagno, 1988a: 147; Compagno et al., 1989: 52, pl.; Compagno, 1999: 119; Heemstra & Heemstra, 2004: 66; Compagno et al., 2005: 233, fig., pl. 39; Ebert et al., 2013 a: 351, fig., pl. 47; NPOA, 2013: 45; da Silva et al., 2015: 248; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 147; Weigmann, 2016: 876. South Africa voucher material: Holotype: SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 6148 [ex ORI 2935]. Paratypes: SAIAB [formerly RUSI] 6161 [ex ORI 2614] (1, hatched from egg case), 6162 [ex ORI 2619] (1, hatched from egg case), 6147 [ex ORI 2936]. South African distribution: East London (EC) to the KZN border with Mozambique. Remarks: A common coastal catshark frequently caught by shore anglers and by commercial offshore trawlers. Conservation status: LC (2019).
Published as part of Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 4947 (1) on pages 47-48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4614567
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