Triakis Müller & Henle, 1838a

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 : 325-326

Genus Triakis Müller & Henle, 1838a

Leopard Sharks / ǿûắé

Triakis Müller & Henle, 1838a: 36 . Type species: Triakis scyllium Müller & Henle 1839 , by subsequent monotypy; appeared first without species.

Triakis scyllium Müller & Henle, 1839

Banded Houndshark / ǿûắ

Triakis scyllium Müller & Henle, 1839: 63 , pl. 26. Holotype: RMNH (dried), Japan.

Local synonymy: Triakis scyllium : Jordan & Evermann, 1902: 318; Jordan & Richardson, 1909: 162; Fowler, 1941: 198 ( Formosa); Chen, 1948: 32; Chen, 1956: 19; Teng, 1962: 107; Chen & Joung, 1993: 58, pl. 6 (fig. 9); Qiu, 1994: 131; Nakabo, 2002: 134, fig.; Shao et al., 2008: 236; Shen & Wu, 2011: 67, figs. Triakis scyllia: Matsubara, 1955: 118 (Taiwan) ; Chen, 1963: 49; Chen & Yu, 1986: 132.

Taiwan voucher material: No specimen examined in this study.

Remarks: Infrequently landed by bottom trawl and longline fisheries in Taiwanese waters. Hemigaleus pingi Evermann & Shaw, 1927 described from Wenchow in China is a junior synonym of this species. Commonly exhibited in public aquaria in China and Japan. No specimen examined in the present study, but these were infrequently seen at the Keelung fish market in April-May 1988 ( DAE, pers. obs.).

Conservation status: Least Concern.