Painted hornshark
Appearance
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Painted hornshark | |
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Holotype (adolescent male). a, dorsal view; b, lateral view | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Order: | Heterodontiformes |
Family: | Heterodontidae |
Genus: | Heterodontus |
Species: | H. marshallae
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Binomial name | |
Heterodontus marshallae White, Mollen, O'Neill, Yang & Naylor, 2023
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The painted hornshark (Heterodontus marshallae) is a species of bullhead shark from northwestern Australia, described in 2023. It was previously considered conspecific with the Zebra bullhead shark.[1] It is found from North West Cape to Bathurst Island.
The painted hornshark looks much like a zebra shark with its dark bar and saddle coloring as shown, but the coloring of the tip of the snout and its fins is the difference between the two.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b White, William T.; Mollen, Frederik H.; O’Neill, Helen L.; Yang, Lei; Naylor, Gavin J. P. (2023). "Species in Disguise: A New Species of Hornshark from Northern Australia (Heterodontiformes: Heterodontidae)". Diversity. 15 (7): 849. doi:10.3390/d15070849.