Author: Springer, 1966

Field Marks:
A Schroederichthys with fairly slender body (adults), broad snout and numerous small dark brown spots bordering saddles.

Diagnostic Features:
Trunk and tail fairly slender in adults but extremely attenuated in young. Snout more broadly rounded; anterior nasal flaps narrow and lobate; mouth relatively broad and wide. Colour pattern of 7 or 8 brown saddles on liqht brown dorsal surface, with numerous small dark brown spots bordering saddles and scattered between them; no white spots. Adults to at least 70 cm.

Geographical Distribution:
Western Atlantic: Brazil (off Amazon River mouth).

Habitat and Biology:
A little-known deepwater tropical catshark of the upper continental slope, found on or near the bottom at 410 m depth.

Size:
Maximum 70 cm (adult).

Interest to Fisheries:
None.

Type material:
Holotype: U.S. National Museum of Natural History 188052, 230 mm, immature male. Type Locality: Off mouth of the Amazon River, Brazil, 01°49'N 46°48'W, in about 410 m depth.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Chondrichthyes
Subclass Elasmobranchii
Superorder Galeomorphii
Order Carcharhiniformes
Family Scyliorhinidae
Genus Schroederichthys
Species Schroederichthys tenuis

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Schroederichthys tenuis Springer, 1966

Scientific synonyms and common names

Schroederichthys tenuis Springer, 1966

Schroederichthys tenuis Springer , 1966, Fish. Bull. U. S. Fish Wildl. Serv. , 65(3):606, figs 16B, 18.

Synonymy: None.

FAO Names:
Slender catshark [English]
Holbiche mannequin [French]
Pejegato menudo [Spanish]
SCYL Schroed 4 [FAO Code]

Springer, S., 1966. A review of Western Atlantic cat sharks, Scyliorhinidae, with descriptions of a new genus and five new species. Fish.Bull.U.S.Fish Wildl.Serv., 65(3):581-624

Springer, S., 1979. A revision of the catsharks, Family Scyliorhinidae. NOAA Tech.Rep.NMFS Circ., (422):97 p.

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