Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Parvphylum Chondrichthyes > Class Elasmobranchii > Subclass Neoselachii > Infraclass Selachii > Superorder Squalomorphi > Order Squaliformes > Family Somniosidae > Genus Scymnodalatias

Scymnodalatias garricki Kukuev & Konovalenko, 1988

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Scymnodalatias*	Garrick, 1956	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: Azores dogfish sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

German: Azoren-Dornhai; Azoren-Samthai sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Lithuanian: Azorų šunryklis sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: акула-собака гаррика; или азорская акула-собака sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: bruja de las Azores

Literature

original description	Kukuev, E. I.; Konovalenko, I. I. (1988). Two new species of sharks of the genus Scymnodalatias (Dalatiidae) from the North Atlantic and southeastern Pacific oceans. Voprosy Ikhtiologii. 28 (2): 315-319. [In Russian. English translation in Journal of Ichthyology 1988, v. 28 (1):122-126.].
basis of record	van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374
additional source	Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024).
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).

Genbank

External Links

FishBase images (Scymnodalatias garricki, by FAO)
FishBase

Citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Scymnodalatias garricki Kukuev & Konovalenko, 1988. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:105916