Author: (Lowe, 1839)

Deania calceus (Lowe, 1839)

Diagnosis: snout long, depressed, narrowing abruptly at nostrils, tip rounded; anterior nasal flap bilobed, subdividing aperture into medial and lateral openings; pre-oral clefts long, up to two-thirds distance to symphysis. Upper teeth with triangular cusp, oblique posteriorly; lower teeth oblique, low, forming single cutting edge. Eye twice as long as high. Spiracle subtriangular, level with top of eye. Pectoral fins lobate, corners broadly rounded; first and second dorsal fins very low with long bases (3 times height); first dorsal apex not well defined, free tip long and slender, second dorsal fin similar to first, but apex more prominent, its origin over or behind pelvic insertion; first dorsal spine barely exposed, second spine long, curved, almost reaching apex of fin; pelvic fins subtriangular, apex broadly rounded; caudal fin moderately broad, upper lobe with truncate tip, lower lobe moderately developed. Colour: grey to dark brown. Size: to 111 cm, mature at 69-84 cm.

Habitat: slope species of temperate waters, at depths of 400-1,000 m, common to 600 m, apparently antitropical. Food: ?fishes. Reproduction: ?ovoviviparous, young born at less than 30 cm.

Distribution: northward to the Faroes and Iceland. Elsewhere, possibly as far south as Senegal (where it is replaced by another species); also, northern and southern Pacific.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Chondrichthyes
Superorder Pleurotremata
Family Squalidae
Genus Deania
Species Deania calceus

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Synonym of Deania calcea (Lowe, 1839)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Deania calceus (Lowe, 1839)

Synonyms:

Deania calceus (Lowe, 1839)
Acanthidium calceus Lowe, 1839, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., 7: 92 (off Madeira). No type material.
Centrophorus calceus: Lowe, 1843: 93 Günther, 1870: 423 Vaillant, 1888: 71-72, pl. III (fig. 1, la-d) Moreau, 1891: 132-133 Goode & Bean, 1896: 14 Collett, 1905: 21-23 Regan, 1908: 51-52 Saemundsson, 1926: 480-481, fig. 253 Lozano Rey, 1928 444-447, fig. 146-148 Saemundsson, 1932: pl. 24 Nobre, 1935: 454, pl. LX (fig. 189).
Centrophorus crepidalbus Bocage & Capello, 1864, Proc. zool. Soc. Lond.: 262, fig. 2 (off Portugal). One specimen of Bocage & Capello's original material, possibly a syntype: BMNH no. 1867.7.23.1.
Centrophorus crepidalbus: Bocage & Capello, 1866: 28-29, pl. II (fig. 1).
Scymnodon ringens (non Bocage & Capello, 1864); Goode & Bean, 1896: pl. IV (fig. 12).
Acanthidium calceus: Garman, 1913: 216 Roule, 1919: 119-120 Albuquerque, 1954-1956: 123-124, fig. 73, 75A.
Deania calceus: Fowler, 1936: 79-80, fig. 24 (not 26 as given by the author) Noronha & Sarmento, 1948: 125-126,139 Brandes et al., 1954: 45 Ledoux, 1970: 334-338, fig. 11-12.
Deania calcea: Bigelow & Schroeder, 1957: 102-107 ? Garrick, 1960b: 489-497, fig. IA-C, 2A-F, 3A-H (Pacific synonyms) Krefft, 1966: 176; 1967: 84 Wheeler, 1969: 66.
Deania calceus calceus: Maurin & Bonnet, 1970: 17, fig. 11.
Deania kaikourae (Whitley, 1934)
Deania eglantina Jordan & Snyder, 1902 (North Pacific forms only)

Common names:

Birdbeak dogfish [En]
Squale savate [Fr]
Tollo pajarito [Es]

*Nobre, A. 1935. Fauna marinha de Portugal. 1. Vertebrados (Mamiferos, Reptis e Peixes), Porto.: Ixxxiv+1-21 (Mamiferos); 1-5 (Reptis); 1-574 (Peixes), 77 pl., 64 phot.

Albuquerque, R. M. 1954-1956. Peixes de Portugal e ilhas adjacentes. Chavas para a sua determinação. Port. Acta biol., ser. B,5:xvi+1167 p., 445 fig.

Bigelow, H. B.; Schroeder, W. C. 1957. A study of the sharks of the suborder Squaloidea. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv., 117 (1) :1-150, fig. 1-16, pl. IIV.

Bocage, J. V. B.; Capello, F. de. 1864. Sur quelques espéces inédites de Squalidae de la tribu Acanthiana, Gray, qui fréquentent les côtes du Portugal. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond.: 260-263, fig. 1-5.

Bocage, J. V. B.; Capello, F. de. 1866. Notes pour servir à l'ichthyologie du Portugal. Poissons Plagiostomes, pt. I. Squales: 40 p., 3 pl.

Brandes, C. H.; Kotthaus, A.; Krefft, G. 1954. Rare fishes. German records. Annls biol, Copenh., 10,1953: 44-45.

Collett, R.1905a. Meddelelser om Norges Fiske i Aarene 1884-1901(3 die Hoved-Supplement til 'Norges Fiske', III Slutning). Forh. Vidensk. Selsk. Krist., (7) :1-173.

Fowler, H. W.1936. The Marine Fishes of West Africa, based on the collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition 1909-15. Bull. am. Mus. nat. Hist., 70 (1), Jan. 21, 1936: vii+606 p., fig. 1-275; (2), Nov. 18,1936: 607-1493, fig. 276-567.

Garman, S. 1913. The Plagiostomia (Sharks, Skates, and Rays). Mem. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv., 36: xiii+528 p., 77 pl.

Garrick, J. A. F.1960b. Studies on New Zealand Elasmobranchii. Part XI. Squaloids of the genera Deania, Etmopterus, Oxynotus and Dalatias in New Zealand waters. Trans. R. Soc. N.Z., 88 (3): 489-517, fig. 1-8, pl. XXVI.

Goode, G. B.; Bean, T. H. 1896. Oceanic ichthyology, a treatise on the deep-sea and pelagic fishes of the world, based chiefly upon the collections made by steamers Blake, Albatross and Fish Hawk in the northwestern Atlantic. Smithson. Contrib. Knowl., 30 and Spec. Bull U.S. natn. Mus., 1895 [1896] and Mem. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv., 1 (Text): xxxv+1-553; 2 (Atlas): xxiii+1-26, 123 pl., 417 fig.

Gunther, A.1870. Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. 8. Catalogue of the Physostomi containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, Ganoidei, Chondropterygii, Cyclostomata, Leptocardii in the collection of the British Museum. London, xxv+549 p.

Jordan, D. S.; Snyder, J. 0. 1902. Descriptions of two new species of squaloid sharks from Japan. Proc. U.S. natn. Mus., 2S: 79-87.

Krefft, G.1966. German observations on Rare Fish in 1964. Annls biol., Copenh., 1964 [1966] 21: 175-178.

Krefft, G.1967a. German observations on Rare Fish in 1965. Annls biol., Copenh., 1965 [1967] 22: 183-186.

Ledoux, J. C. 1970. Les dents des Squalidés de la Méditerranée occidentale et de l'Atlantique Nord-ouest africain. Vie Milieu, 21 (2A): 309-362, 21 fig.

Lowe, R. T.1839. A supplement to a synopsis of the Fishes of Madeira. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 7: 76-92 (also publ. in Trans. zool. Soc. Lond., 1842, 3 (1) :1-20).

Lowe, R. T.1843. Notices of fishes newly observed or discovered in Madeira during the years 1840,1841 and 1842. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond., 11: 81-95.

Lozano y Rey, L.1928. Fauna Ibérica. Pesces (Generalidades, Ciclóstomos y Elasmobranquios). Mus. Nac. Ciencias Nat., Madrid, 1:1-692,197 fig., 20 pl.

Maurin, C.; Bonnet, M. 1970. Poissons des côtes nord-ouest africaines (Campagnes de la 'Thalassa', 1962 et 1968). Rev. Trav. Inst. (scient. tech.) Pech. marit., 34 (2): 125-170, fig. 1-26.

Moreau, E.1881-91. Histoire naturelle des poissons de la France, Paris, I, 1881: I-VII+ 1-480, fig. 1-82; II, 1881:1-572, fig. 83-145; III, 1881:1-697, fig. 146-220; Suppl., 1891: 1-144, fig. 221-227.

Noronha, A. C. di; Sarmento, A. A. 1948. Vertebrados da Madeira. Funchal, Junta Gen. Distr. Aut., 2:181 p.

Regan, C. T.1908c. A synopsis of sharks of the family Squalidae. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (8) 2: 39-57.

Roule, L. 1919. Poissons provenant des campagnes du yacht 'Princesse Alice' (1891-1913) et du yacht 'Hirondelle II' (1914). Résult. Camp. scient. Prince Albert 1, 52: 191 p., 7 pl.

Saemundsson, B. 1926. Fiskarnir (Pisces Islandiae). Islensk Dyr, 1. xvi+528 p., 266 fig.

Saemundsson, B. 1932b. Centrophorus calceus, C. squamosus, C. jonsonii. In: L. Joubin, ed., Faune ichthyol. Atlant. N., Copenhagen: fiches no. 2426.

Vaillant, L. 1888. Poissons in Expéditions scientifiques du 'Travailleur' et du 'Talisman' pendant les années 1880-83. Masson, Paris, 406 p., 28 pl.

Wheeler, A. 1969. The Fishes of the British Isles and North-West Europe. Macmillan, London, Melbourne and Toronto: i-xvii+1-163, 5+177 fig., +392 fig. (princ. sp.)+92 n. num. fig., 16 pl., maps.

Whitley, G. P. 1934a. Notes on some Australian sharks. Mem. Qd Mus., 10 (4) :180-200, fig. 4, pl. 27-29.

Whitley, G. P. 1934b. Supplement to the check-list of fishes of New South Whales. Fishes and Fish-like Animals. N.S. Wales (McCulloch), 3rd ed., Sydney, 12 p.

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