Animalia > Chordata > Elasmobranchii > Carcharhiniformes > Scyliorhinidae > Scyliorhinus > Scyliorhinus stellarisScyliorhinus stellaris (Rigg; Nurse-hound; Nursehound; Nurse; Large-spotted dogfish; Larger spotted dogfish; Hound; Greate-spotted dogfish; Greater spotted dogfish; Flake catfish; Flake; Dogfish; Bull huss)Synonyms: Scyllium acanthonotum (heterotypic); Scyllium catulus; Squalus stellaris Language: Albanian; Arabic; Catalan; Croatian; Czech; Danish; Dutch; Finnish; French; German; Greek; Hebrew; Italian; Maltese; Mandarin Chinese; Manx; Norwegian; Polish; Portuguese; Russian; Serbian; Spanish; Swedish; Turkish The nursehound (Scyliorhinus stellaris), also known as the large-spotted dogfish, greater spotted dogfish, or bull huss, is a species of catshark, belonging to the family Scyliorhinidae, found in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. It is generally found among rocks or algae at a depth of 20–60 m (66–197 ft). Growing up to 1.6 m (5.2 ft) long, the nursehound has a robust body with a broad, rounded head and two dorsal fins placed far back. It shares its range with the more common and closely related small-spotted catshark (S. canicula), which it resembles in appearance but can be distinguished from, in having larger spots and nasal skin flaps that do not extend to the mouth. |
Maximum Longevity [1] | 19 years |
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Cardigan Bay/ Bae Ceredigion |
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236876 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Carmarthen Bay and Estuaries/ Bae Caerfyrddin ac Aberoedd |
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163340 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Fal and Helford |
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15785 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Isles of Scilly Complex |
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66350 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Lundy |
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7573 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Lyme Bay and Torbay |
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77215 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Pembrokeshire Marine/ Sir Benfro Forol |
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341177 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Pen Llyn a`r Sarnau/ Lleyn Peninsula and the Sarnau |
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360832 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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St Kilda |
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62932 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Start Point to Plymouth Sound & Eddystone |
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84204 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London ♦ 4Pollerspöck, J. & Straube, N. (2015), Bibliography database of living/fossil sharks, rays and chimaeras
(Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii, Holocephali) -Host-Parasites List/Parasite-Hosts List-, World Wide Web electronic publication, Version 04/2015; |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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