Scyllium tumidens

Woodward, 1889


Classification: Elasmobranchii Carcharhiniformes Scyliorhinidae

Reference of the original description
Woodward, A.S. (1889)
Catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum. Part. I. British Museum (Natural History): 474 p., fig., 17 pl.

Types
Scyllium tumidens



Description:


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Scyllium (?) tumidens sp. nov.; tooth, outer aspect, six times nat. size, [ P. 4777.]

Description
he head from the inferior aspect, traces of about thirty anterior vertebrae, the pectoral arch, and the right pectoral fin. The snout is very obtuse, and the head measures 0-047 in length. The teeth are numerous and relatively small, displaying the characters already noted in the specif-ic diagnosis, and one is shown, of six times the natural size, in Pl. XVI. fig. 6. The pectoral fin is acutely triangular, with a short base of insertion, and slender basal cartilaginous rays. Pur-chased, 1884.
The following species have also been founded upon detached teeth, but there are no examples in the Collection : — Scyllium acre, J. Probst, Württ. Jahresh. vol. xxxv. (1879), p. 171, pi. iii. fig. 27. — Molasse; Baltringen, Württemberg.

Remarks
shark-references Species-ID=6374;
valid after Woodward (1889) p. 342 [2593];

References
Woodward, A.S. (1889)
Catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum. Part. I. British Museum (Natural History): 474 p., fig., 17 pl.