North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Mustelus canis (Mitchill, 1815)

AphiaID

158518 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158518)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Mustelus Linck, 1790

Original name

Squalus canis Mitchill, 1815

Environment

marine, brackish, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of ) Mitchill, S. L. (1815). The fishes of New-York, described and arranged. Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York. v. 1 (art. 5) (for 1814): 355-492, Pls. 1-6. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2021). FishBase. Mustelus canis (Mitchill, 1815). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2021) European Register of Marine Species at: http://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=158518 on 2026-08-14

Regional species database citation

NARMS (2026). Mustelus canis (Mitchill, 1815). Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=158518 on 2026-08-14

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-05-26 07:43:32Z

created

Cuvelier, Daphne

2008-01-15 17:27:08Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

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original description (of ) Mitchill, S. L. (1815). The fishes of New-York, described and arranged. Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York. v. 1 (art. 5) (for 1814): 355-492, Pls. 1-6. [details]

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

context source (HKRMS) Sin, Y. T. (2009). Age, growth and reproductive biology of whitespotted bamboo shark (Chiloscyllium plagiosum) from Hong Kong and adjacent waters. Mphil thesis. The University of Hong Kong. [details]

context source (Bermuda) Smith-Vaniz, W. F.; Collette, B. B.; Luckhurst, B. E (1999). Fishes of Bermuda: History, zoogeography, annotated checklist, and identification keys (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists - Special Publication No.4) . ASIH, 424 pp. [details]

basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]