Carcharias Rafinesque, 1810a

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 : 308

Genus Carcharias Rafinesque, 1810a

Sandtiger Sharks / DỄắé

Carcharias Rafinesque, 1810a: 10 . Type species: Carcharias taurus Rafinesque, 1810 , by monotypy.

Carcharias taurus Rafinesque, 1810a

Spotted Raggedtooth / DỄắ

Carcharias taurus Rafinesque, 1810a: 10 , pl. 14, fig. 1. Holotype unknown; type locality: Sicily, Mediterranean Sea.

Local synonymy: Carcharias taurus: Teng, 1958: 17 , fig. 11 (1 specimen, 936 mm TL, not retained); 1962: 931, fig. 25; Chen, 1963: 43; Shen & Wu, 2011: 59, fig. Odontaspis taurus: Shen, 1984a: 53 , fig.; Chen & Yu, 1986: 127. Eugomphodus taurus: Chen & Joung, 1993: 49 , pl. 4.8.

Taiwan voucher material: No specimen examined in this study.

Remarks: This species appears to be in Taiwanese waters. One of us ( DAE) examined a 2 m TL specimen (7 April 1988) in the collection at National Ocean University, Keelung, that was incorrectly labelled as Echinorhinus cookei ; no other information was available other than it was supposedly landed in the Keelung fish market.

Conservation status: Vulnerable.