Cirrhigaleus Tanaka, 1912

Ebert, David A., White, William T., Ho, Hsuan-Ching, Last, Peter R., Nakaya, Kazuhiro, Séret, Bernard, Straube, Nicolas, Naylor, Gavin J. P. & De Carvalho, Marcelo R., 2013, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Taiwan, Zootaxa 3752 (1), pp. 279-386 : 284-285

Genus Cirrhigaleus Tanaka, 1912

Mandarin dogfishes / Ğqḛé

Cirrhigaleus Tanaka, 1912: 151 . Type species: Cirrhigaleus barbifer Tanaka, 1912 , by original designation (also by monotypy).

Cirrhigaleus barbifer Tanaka, 1912

Mandarin Dogfish / ĦĞởǟḛ

Cirrhigaleus barbifer Tanaka, 1912: 151 , pl. 41, figs 156–162. Holotype: ZUMT 3397 , male 855 mm TL, from Tokyo fish market [lost, Eschmeyer (2012)].

Local synonymy: Cirrhigaleus barbifer: Chen & Yu, 1986: 112 ; Joung et al., 1989: 242, fig. 5 (NMF 345, 80 mm TL, NMF 492, 975 mm TL, Da-xi); Chen & Joung, 1993: 37, pl. 2; 2011: 81, fig.

Taiwan voucher material: (1 specimen) FRIP 22294 , adult female 1150 mm TL, 23°20'N, 121 ° 48.3'E, Wu-shih-bi, Cheng-gong, 20 Jun 2007 .

Remarks: An image by P. Kyne of a specimen landed at Penghu Islands in May 2005 was observed by one of us ( WTW) and confirmed as this species. Only a few records of this species exist in Taiwan; sporadic distribution in the western North Pacific, from Indonesia ( White et al., 2006) to Japan ( Tanaka, 1912); previously considered to occur off southern Australia and New Zealand but this was recently described as a separate species, Cirrhigaleus australis White, Last & Stevens, 2007 .

Conservation status: Data Deficient.