The genus ''Eridacnis'', the ribbontail catsharks, is a small genus of fin-back catsharks in the family
Proscylliidae
The finback catsharks are a small family, the Proscylliidae, of ground sharks. They can be found in warm seas worldwide and are often the most numerous and common shark in tropical regions. They are generally less than 1 m in length, and are slow ...
. It currently consists of the following species:
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Eridacnis barbouri''
( Bigelow & Schroeder __NOTOC__
Schroeder is a North German language, German (from Schröder) occupational name for a cloth cutter or tailor, from an agent derivative of Middle Low German , "to cut". The same term was occasionally used to denote a gristmiller as well as ...
, 1944) (Cuban ribbontail catshark)
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Eridacnis radcliffei
The pygmy ribbontail catshark (''Eridacnis radcliffei'') is a species of finback catshark, family Proscylliidae, distributed patchily in the western Indo-Pacific from Tanzania to the Philippines. It occurs around the edges of continental and ...
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H. M. Smith, 1913 (pygmy ribbontail catshark)
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Eridacnis sinuans
The African ribbontail catshark, ''Eridacnis sinuans'', is a finback catshark of the family Proscylliidae, found in the western Indian Ocean, from Tanzania, South Africa, and Mozambique, at depths between 180 and 480 m. It can grow up to a l ...
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( J. L. B. Smith, 1957) (African ribbontail catshark)
References
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Shark genera
Taxa named by Hugh McCormick Smith
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