Kingdom: Animalia > Phylum: Chordata > Class: Elasmobranchii > Order: Squaliformes > Family: Centrophoridae > Genus: Centrophorus > Species: Centrophorus squamosus

Leafscale gulper sha - Centrophorus squamosus (Bonnaterre, 1788)

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Threat status Europe	Endangered (IUCN)
Protected by	2 international agreements

Distribution

Threat and conservation status

IUCN Red List status of threatened species

The IUCN Red List threat status assesses the risk of extinction.

World

Vulnerable

Europe

Endangered

Not evaluated

IUCN Red List Category

Not Evaluated	Near Threatened	Regionally Extinct
Not Applicable	Vulnerable	Extinct in the Wild
Data Deficient	Endangered	Extinct
Least Concern	Critically Endangered

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EU conservation status

The EU conservation status is assessed for species mentioned in the EU Habitats Directive annexes. The EU Habitats Directive does not cover this species.

Natura 2000 sites

Legal status

Legal text	Annex	Conditions	More information
Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic ("OSPAR Convention") (OSPAR Convention)	or declining species in the North East Atlantic. The purpose of the list is to guide the OSPAR Commission in setting priorities for its further work on the conservation and protection of marine biodiversity. The inclusion of a species or of a type of habitat on this list has no other significance.	Synonym for this species is listed in OSPAR Convention. See there for more details.
	Initial OSPAR List of Threatened and/or Declining Species and Habitats (Reference Number: 2003-14) in addition to Annex V		http://www.ospar.org/content...240000_000000_000000

Common names and synonyms

Common Name	Language	Reference
Kolen czerwony	Polish	Fishbase
Leafscale gulper sha	English	Fishbase
Leafscale gulper shark	English	Fishbase
Lixa	Portuguese	Fishbase
Quelvacho	Spanish	Fishbase
Quelvacho negro	Spanish	Fishbase
Rauðháfur	Icelandic	Fishbase
Squale-chagrin de l'Atlantique	French	Fishbase

Synonym	Author
Squalus squamosus	Bonnaterre, 1788
Machephilus dumerili	Johnson, 1868
Centrophorus foliaceus	Günther, 1877
Centroscymnus fuscus	Gilchrist & von Bonde, 1924
Centrophorus nilsoni	Thompson, 1930
Encheiridiodon hendersoni	Smith, 1967
Lepidorhinus kinbei	Tanaka, 1918
Lepidorhinus squamosus	(Bonnaterre, 1788)
Lepidorhinus hinbei	Tanaka, 1918
Lepidorphinus foliaceus	(Günther, 1877)

Other resources

CoL (accepted name)	Catalogue of Life
Fauna Europaea search	Fauna Europaea
FishBase	FishBase
GBIF	Global Biodiversity Information Facility
ITIS (Valid name)	Interagency Taxonomic Information System
NCBI search	National Center for Biotechnology Information
PESI (Accepted)	Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure
Wikipedia	Wikipedia
WoRMS	World Register of Marine Species

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