Cirrhoscyllium Smith & Radcliffe

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 : 302-303

Genus Cirrhoscyllium Smith & Radcliffe in Smith, 1913b

Saddled Carpetsharks / DZḄắé

Cirrhoscyllium Smith & Radcliffe in Smith, 1913b: 568. Type species: Cirrhoscyllium expolitum Smith & Radcliffe in Smith, 1913b, by original designation.

Cirrhoscyllium formosanum Teng, 1959b

Taiwan Saddled Carpetshark / Ớ ḎĞḛ

Cirrhoscyllium formosanum Teng, 1959b: 1 , pl. 1. Holotype: TFRI 3574 , female 367 mm TL, off Kaohsiung, Taiwan , 110 m depth.

Local synonymy: Cirrhoscyllium formosanum: Teng, 1959b: 1 , pl. 1; 1962: 59, fig. 14; Chen, 1963: 18; Shen, 1984a: 52, fig.; Chen & Yu, 1986: 122; Chen & Joung, 1993:45; Goto & Nakaya, 1996: 199: fig. 3; Shao et al., 2008: 236; Shen & Wu, 2011:55, fig.

Taiwan voucher material: (9 spec.) AMNH 258166 (tissue accession GN10120 ), adult female 391 mm TL , CSIRO H 7401-04 , adult male 324 mm TL CSIRO H 7401-05 , juvenile male 190 mm TL , CSIRO H 7401-06 (tissue accession GN10125 ), female, 195 mm TL , HUMZ 213816 , pregnant female 386 mm TL , HUMZ 213817 (tissue accession GN10123 ), female 337 mm TL , MNHN 2013-0425 (tissue accession GN10121 ), adult male 343 mm TL, Dong-gang, 19 Mar 2012 ; MNHN 2013-0470 (tissue accession GN10162 ), adult male 360 mm TL, Dong-gang, 20 Mar 2012 ; CAS 236049 , adult female 395 mm TL, off Kaohsiung, 22°32'N, 120°07'E, 320 m depth, 21 Mar 2012 .

Remarks: This species was originally described from 12 specimens including the holotype and 11 paratypes (8 males and 3 females) ranging in length from 347 to 390 mm, all collected from Kaohsiung. As far as known this little shark is endemic to the southern coast of Taiwan.

Conservation status: Data Deficient.