africanus, Squalus Gmelin [J. F.] 1789:1494 [Caroli a Linné ... Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae v. 1 (pt 3); ref. 18139] South Africa. No types known. Neotype designation by Fricke 1999:16-17 [ref. 24106] is invalid; see Fricke 2000:639 [ref. 24537]. •Valid as Poroderma africanum (Gmelin 1789) -- (Compagno 1984:347 [ref. 6846], Bass 1986:94 [ref. 5635], Gubanov & Timoxin 1989:221 [ref. 36138], Compagno 1999:480 [ref. 25589], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:67 [ref. 28072], Human 2006:6 [ref. 28714], Weigmann 2016:42 [ref. 34211], Fricke et al. 2018:10 [ref. 35805], Almeida & Biscoito 2019:60 [ref. 37302], Soares & Carvalho 2020:379 [ref. 37593], Ebert et al. 2021:52 [ref. 38234], Fermon et al. 2022:93 [ref. 39448], Human & Ebert 2022:490 [ref. 39666]). Current status: Valid as Poroderma africanum (Gmelin 1789). Scyliorhinidae. Distribution: Southeastern Atlantic, southwestern Indian Ocean: Gabon; Northern Cape to KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), ?Madagascar, ?Mauritius (Mascarenes). Habitat: marine.