| Apristurus | |
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| Above: Deepwater catshark (A. profundorum) Below: Ghost catshark (A. manis)  | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Chordata | 
| Class: | Chondrichthyes | 
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii | 
| Subdivision: | Selachimorpha | 
| Order: | Carcharhiniformes | 
| Family: | Scyliorhinidae | 
| Genus: | Apristurus Garman, 1913  | 
| Type species | |
| Scylliorhinus indicus Brauer, 1906  | |
| Synonyms | |
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Apristurus is a genus of catsharks, the family Scyliorhinidae, commonly known as the ghost or demon catsharks.
Species
The 39 currently recognized species in this genus are:[1][2][3]
- Apristurus albisoma Nakaya & Séret, 1999 (white-bodied catshark)
 - Apristurus ampliceps Sasahara, Sato & Nakaya, 2008 (roughskin catshark)
 - Apristurus aphyodes Nakaya & Stehmann, 1998 (white ghost catshark)
 - Apristurus australis Sato Nakaya & Yorozu, 2008 (Pinocchio catshark)
 - Apristurus breviventralis Kawauchi, Weigmann & Nakaya, 2014 (shortbelly catshark) [4]
 - Apristurus brunneus C. H. Gilbert, 1892 (brown catshark)
 - Apristurus bucephalus W. T. White, Last & Pogonoski, 2008 (bighead catshark)
 - Apristurus canutus S. Springer & Heemstra, 1979 (hoary catshark)
 - Apristurus exsanguis Sato, Nakaya & A. L. Stewart, 1999 (flaccid catshark)
 - Apristurus fedorovi Dolganov, 1985 (Fedorov's catshark)
 - Apristurus garricki Sato, Stewart & Nakaya, 2013 (Garrick's catshark) [5]
 - Apristurus gibbosus Y. T. Chu, Q. W. Meng & S. Li, 1985 (humpback catshark)
 - Apristurus herklotsi Fowler, 1934 (longfin catshark)
 - Apristurus indicus A. B. Brauer, 1906 (smallbelly catshark)
 - Apristurus internatus S. M. Deng, G. Q. Xiong & H. X. Zhan, 1988 (shortnose demon catshark)
 - Apristurus investigatoris Misra, 1962 (broadnose catshark)
 - Apristurus japonicus Nakaya, 1975 (Japanese catshark)
 - Apristurus kampae L. R. Taylor, 1972 (longnose catshark)
 - Apristurus laurussonii Sæmundsson, 1922 (Iceland catshark)
 - Apristurus longicephalus Nakaya, 1975 (longhead catshark)
 - Apristurus macrorhynchus S. Tanaka (I), 1909 (flathead catshark)
 - Apristurus macrostomus Q. W. Meng, Y. T. Chu & S. Li, 1985 (broadmouth catshark)
 - Apristurus manis S. Springer, 1979 (ghost catshark)
 - Apristurus manocheriani Cordova & Ebert 2021, (Manocherian's Catshark)
 - Apristurus melanoasper Iglésias, Nakaya & Stehmann, 2004 (black roughscale catshark)
 - Apristurus microps Gilchrist, 1922 (smalleye catshark)
 - Apristurus micropterygeus Q. W. Meng, Y. T. Chu & S. Li, 1986 (smalldorsal catshark)
 - Apristurus nakayai Iglésias, 2013 (milk-eye catshark) [6]
 - Apristurus nasutus F. de Buen, 1959 (largenose catshark)
 - Apristurus ovicorrugatus White, O'Neill, Devloo-Delva, Nakaya & Iglésias, 2023 (ridged-egg catshark)
 - Apristurus parvipinnis S. Springer, 1979 & Heemstra, 1979 (smallfin catshark)
 - Apristurus pinguis S. M. Deng, G. Q. Xiong & H. X. Zhan, 1983 (bulldog catshark)
 - Apristurus platyrhynchus S. Tanaka (I), 1909 (spatulasnout catshark or Borneo catshark)
 - Apristurus profundorum Goode & T. H. Bean, 1896 (deepwater catshark)
 - Apristurus riveri Bigelow & Schroeder, 1944 (broadgill catshark)
 - Apristurus saldanha Barnard, 1925 (Saldanha catshark)
 - †Apristurus sereti ADNET, 2006[7]
 - Apristurus sibogae M. C. W. Weber, 1913 (pale catshark)
 - Apristurus sinensis Y. T. Chu & A. S. Hu, 1981 (South China catshark)
 - Apristurus spongiceps C. H. Gilbert, 1905 (spongehead catshark)
 - Apristurus stenseni S. Springer, 1979, 1979 (Panama ghost catshark)
 - Apristurus sp. X Not yet described (Galbraith's catshark)
 - Apristurus sp. 3 Not yet described (black wonder catshark)
 - Apristurus sp. nov. Not yet described (white-edged catshark)
 - Apristurus sp. Not yet described (gray ghost catshark)
 
References
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). Species of Apristurus in FishBase. January 2017 version.
 - ↑ S Weigmann (10 February 2016). "Annotated checklist of the living sharks, batoids and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes) of the world, with a focus on biogeographical diversity". Journal of Fish Biology. 88 (3): 837–1037. doi:10.1111/JFB.12874. ISSN 0022-1112. PMID 26860638. Wikidata Q35918688.
 - ↑ JUSTIN A. CORDOVA; DAVID A. EBERT (7 July 2021). "Apristurus manocheriani (Carcharhiniformes: Pentanchidae), a new species of catshark from the Southwest Indian Ocean" (PDF). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation. 38. doi:10.5281/ZENODO.5081131. ISSN 1937-7835. Wikidata Q107529870.
 - ↑ Kawauchi, J.; Weigmann, S. & Nakaya, K. (2014). "Apristurus breviventralis, a new species of deep-water catshark (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) from the Gulf of Aden" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3881 (1): 1–16. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3881.1.1. PMID 25543616.
 - ↑ Sato, K., Stewart, A.L. & Nakaya, K. (2013): Apristurus garricki sp. nov., a new deep-water catshark from the northern New Zealand waters (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae). Marine Biology Research, 9 (8): 758-767.
 - ↑ Iglésias, S.P. (2013): Apristurus nakayai sp. nov., a new species of deepwater catshark (Chondrichthyes: Pentanchidae) from New Caledonia. Cybium, 36 (4): 511-519.
 - ↑ "Extinct - valid species | Species | Shark-References". shark-references.com. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
 
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