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Species of fish

Painted hornshark
Holotype (adolescent male). a, dorsal view; b, lateral view
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Heterodontiformes
Family: Heterodontidae
Genus: Heterodontus
Species: H. marshallae
Binomial name
Heterodontus marshallae
White, Mollen, O'Neill, Yang & Naylor, 2023

The painted hornshark (Heterodontus marshallae) is a species of bullhead shark from northwestern Australia, described in 2023. It was previously considered conspecific with the Zebra bullhead shark. It is found from North West Cape to Bathurst Island.

The painted hornshark looks much like a zebra shark with its dark bar and saddle coloring as shown, but the coloring of the tip of the snout and its fins is the difference between the two.

References

  1. ^ White, William T.; Mollen, Frederik H.; O’Neill, Helen L.; Yang, Lei; Naylor, Gavin J. P. (2023). "Species in Disguise: A New Species of Hornshark from Northern Australia (Heterodontiformes: Heterodontidae)". Diversity. 15 (7): 849. doi:10.3390/d15070849.


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