Dalatias licha

ingleseModerately sized, short- and blunt-snouted shark with two almost equal-sized dorsal fins; papillose thick lips; small slender-cusped upper teeth and very large lower teeth with erect triangular serrated cusps and distal blades; first dorsal fin on back with its origin behind the pectoral rear tips and its base closer to the pectoral base than the pelvic fins; and caudal fin with the ventral lobe not expanded (Ref. 247). Dark grey-brown to black; trailing edges of fins translucent (Ref. 26346).

• Pseudoscymnus boshuensis Herre, 1935
• Squalus licha Bonnaterre, 1788
• Squalus americanus Gmelin, 1789
• Scymnorhinus brevipinnis Smith, 1936
• Scymnorhinus licha (Bonnaterre, 1788)
• Dalatias sparophagus Rafinesque, 1810
• Scymnus aquitanensis de la Pylaie, 1835
• Dalatias lica (Bonnaterre, 1788)
• Dalatias lichia (Bonnaterre, 1788)
• Dalatias tachiensis Shen & Ting, 1972
• Squalus scymnus Voigt, 1832
• Squalus nicaeensis Risso, 1810
• Scymnus vulgaris Cloquet, 1822
• Scymnorhinus phillippsi Whitley, 1931