Pseudotriakis de Brito Capello, 1868

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 : 321

Genus Pseudotriakis de Brito Capello, 1868

False Catsharks / ḇŏőḛé

Pseudotriakis de Brito Capello, 1868: 321 . Type species: Pseudotriakis microdon Capello, 1868 , by monotypy.

Pseudotriakis microdon de Brito Capello, 1868

False Catshark / ṁǿḇŏőḛ

Pseudotriakis microdon de Brito Capello, 1868: 321 , pl. 5, fig. 1. Holotype: MB uncatalogued, adult male 2310 mm TL, collected off Setubal, Portugal; lost in fire that destroyed this museum.

Local synonymy: Pseudotriakis microdon: Teng, 1958: 15 , fig. 10; Chen & Joung, 1993: 57, pl. 6.4; Shen & Wu, 2011: 65, fig. Pseudotriakis acrage: Teng, 1962: 89 , fig. 24; Chen, 1963: 39; Chen & Yu, 1986: 130. Pseudotriakis acrales: Shen, 1984a: 56 , fig.

Taiwan voucher material: (9 spec.) NMMB-P 15787 ; NMMB-P 15838 , NMMB-P 15839 , 29 Mar 2011 ; NMMB-P 15707 (tissue accession GN10232 ) , NMMB-P 15710 (tissue accession GN10233 ), 18 Jul 2011 ; NMMB-P 15708 (tissue accession GN10236 ) , NMMB-P 15709 (tissue accession GN10237 ) , NMMB-P 15712 (tissue accession GN10235 ) , NMMB-P 15713 , Cheng-gong, 2 Oct 2011 .

Remarks: Although seen occasionally at fish markets, especially on the east coast, this species appears to be relatively uncommon. However, with increasing deep-sea fisheries off the east coast it may prove to be more common in this region than previously believed.

Conservation status: Data Deficient.