Ocellated angelshark

Ocellated angelshark
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Chondrichthyes
Subclass:	Elasmobranchii
Order:	Squatiniformes
Family:	Squatinidae
Genus:	Squatina
Species:	S. tergocellatoides
Binomial name
Squatina tergocellatoides J. S. T. F. Chen, 1963
Range of ocellated angelshark (in blue)

The ocellated angelshark (Squatina tergocellatoides) is an angelshark of the family Squatinidae found only from the Taiwan Straits in the western Pacific between latitudes 28 and 22°N and in northern Malaysia. Its length is up to 63 cm.

Reproduction is ovoviviparous.

References

1. Rigby, C.L.; Bin Ali, A.; Bineesh, K.K.; Chen, X.; Derrick, D.; Dharmadi, Ebert, D.A.; Fahmi, Fernando, D.; Gautama, D.A.; Haque, A.B.; Herman, K.; Ho, H.; Hsu, H.; Maung, A.; Vo, V.Q.; Sianipar, A.; Tanay, D.; Utzurrum, J.A.T.; Yuneni, R.R.; Zhang, J. (2020). "Squatina tergocellatoides". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T161525A134193835. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T161525A134193835.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.

• Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Squatina tergocellatoides". FishBase. July 2006 version.
• Compagno, Dando, & Fowler, Sharks of the World, Princeton University Press, New Jersey 2005 ISBN 0-691-12072-2
• Walsh, JH and DA Ebert. 2007. A review of the systematics of western North Pacific angel sharks, genus Squatina, with redescriptions of Squatina formosa, S. japonica, and S. nebulosa (Chondrichthyes: Squatiniformes, Squatinidae). Zootaxa 1551: 31–47.
• Yano, K., A Ali, AC Gambang, IA Hamid, SA Razak, and A Zainal. 2005. Sharks and rays of Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam, Marine Fishery Resources Development and Management Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia, 591pp.