Deania cf. profundorum

Straube, Nicolas, White, William T., Ho, Hsuan-Ching, Rochel, Elisabeth, Corrigan, Shannon, Li, Chenhong & Naylor, Gavin J. P., 2013, A DNA sequence-based identification checklist for Taiwanese chondrichthyans, Zootaxa 3752 (1), pp. 256-278 : 259

Deania cf. profundorum

The two Deania samples collected in Taiwan were initially identified as D. cf. quadrispinosa . They formed a single cluster that included a sample from off Japan (GN7456) labeled as D. profundorum and a sample from off New South Wales, Australia (GN2543) identified as D. quadrispinosum 2 (Supplementary Material 1, Figure 1). This cluster grouped closest to, but distinct from, a D. quadrispinosum 1 sample (GN2619) from New South Wales, Australia. A taxonomic revision of this group is currently underway. This species is provisionally identified as D. cf. profundorum , but is distinct from the D. cf. profundorum sample from Portugal ( Figure 1), which is certainly a distinct species.