oculata, Squatina Bonaparte [C. L.] 1840:fasc. 28, punt. 147, Pl. 143 (fig. 2) [Iconografia della fauna italica; ref. 514] Italy, western Mediterranean Sea. No types known. Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:158 [ref. 13621]. •Valid as Squatina oculata Bonaparte 1840 -- (Krefft 1973:50 [ref. 7166], Compagno 1984:149 [ref. 6474], Roux in Whitehead et al. 1984:149 [ref. 13675], Capapé 1987:22 [ref. 39326], Springer 1990:77 [ref. 19315], Bianchi & Carpenter in Bianchi et al. 1993:85 [ref. 25472], Golani 1996:21 [ref. 22271], Compagno 1999:475 [ref. 25589], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:19 [ref. 26753], Golani 2005:12 [ref. 37112], Fricke et al. 2007:17 [ref. 29533], Last & White 2008:2 [ref. 29746], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:11 [ref. 36649], Weigmann 2016:71 [ref. 34211], Acero P. et al. 2016:583 [ref. 34531], Compagno 2016:1217 [ref. 34544], Zava et al. 2017:341 [ref. 35032], Almeida & Biscoito 2019:116 [ref. 37302], Carneiro et al. 2019:39 [ref. 37250], Giovos et al. 2019:4 [ref. 37099], Reiner 2019:23 [ref. 38139], Bariche & Fricke 2020:30 [ref. 37515], Kabasakal 2020:57 [ref. 37952], Kovačić et al. 2020:7 [ref. 37519], Serena et al. 2020:502 [ref. 37963], Giovos et al. 2021:6 [ref. 38895], Golani 2021:9 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:13 [ref. 39014], Barone et al. 2022:39 [ref. 39527], Fermon et al. 2022:101 [ref. 39448], Rafrafi-Nouira et al. 2022:11 [ref. 39569]; Zava et al. 2022:287 [ref. 40345], Akyol et al. 2023:40 [ref. 40135], Balàka et al. 2023:7 [ref. 40410], Shakman et al. 2023:463 [ref. 40810], Gadig et al. 2024:16 [ref. 40775] as oculta, Leeney 2024:39 [ref. 40985]). Current status: Valid as Squatina oculata Bonaparte 1840. Squatinidae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; eastern Atlantic: Portugal south to Namibia, including São Tomé and Principe. Habitat: marine.