Cephaloscyllium Gill, 1862

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 : 316-317

Genus Cephaloscyllium Gill, 1862

Swellsharks / Āḛ

Cephaloscyllium Gill, 1862: 408 , 412. Type Species: Scyllium laticeps Duméril, 1853 by original designation.

Cephaloscyllium fasciatum Chan, 1966

Reticulated Swellshark / ḂĠĀḛ

Cephaloscyllium fasciatum Chan, 1966: 232 , fig. 6, 7a,c, 8, pl. 3. Holotype: BMNH 1965.8 .11.1, 422 mm TL, adolescent or adult female. Type locality: 15°55.7'N, 109°28.5'E, about 35 miles ESE of Cape Bantagan , Vietnam, 205 to 315 m

depth.

Local synonymy: Cephaloscyllium maculatum : Schaaf-Da Silva & Ebert, 2008: 7, figs 6, 5b, 7b, 10b, tab. 1. Cephaloscyllium pardelotum : Schaaf-Da Silva & Ebert, 2008: 3, figs 1, 5a, 7a, tab. 1; Shen & Wu, 2011: 63, fig.

Taiwan voucher material: CAS 224877, male 188 mm TL, Su-ao, 3 Apr 1988 (holotype of C. maculatum ); CAS 224876, female 202 mm TL, Dong-gang, 21 Apr 1988 (holotype of C. pardelotum ); See Nakaya et al. (2013, this issue) for information on additional specimens examined.

Remarks: Common around southern Taiwan.

Conservation status: Data Deficient.

Cephaloscyllium formosanum Teng, 1962

Taiwan Swellshark / Ớ Āḛ

Cephaloscyllium formosanum Teng, 1962: 48–51 , fig. 11. Holotype: TFRI 4339 , female 655 mm TL, collected off Tung- Kang, Taiwan, 22°25′N, 120°25′E, 7 Mar 1961.

Local synonymy: Cephaloscyllium formosanum: Teng, 1962: 48 , fig. 11. Taiwan voucher material: (1 specimen) TFRI 4339 , female 655 mm TL, off Dong-gang , 22°25'N, 120°25'E, 7 Mar 1961 (holotype of C. formosanum ).

Remarks: This species is known only by the solo holotype collected from Dong-gang. Shinsuke Inoue examined the holotype in 2002 and a search for the species by KN and HH was failed and the holotype is appraently lost (Nakaya et al., 2013).

Conservation status: Not Evaluated.

Cephaloscyllium sarawakensis Yano, Ahmad & Gambang, 2005

Sarawak Pygmy Swellshark / ẇḒAEĀḛ

Cephaloscyllium sarawakensis Yano, Ahmad & Gambang in Yano et al., 2005: 147, tabs 2–3, pls. 92–101. Holotype: IK- 0002723 [also Museum catalogue number MSR201] (National Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), adult female 354 mm TL, off Tanjong Sirik , Sarawak , Malaysia , 04°48′S, 109°56′E to 05°19′S, 111°16′E, 118–165 m depth, 2–11 Jul 1998.

Local synonymy: Cephaloscyllium umbratile: Teng, 1962: 45 , fig. 10; Chen, 1963: 29, fig. 9. Cephaloscyllium formosanum: Shen, 1984b: 2 , fig. 4–4. Cephaloscyllium parvum: Inoue & Nakaya, 2006: 77 , figs. 1–3, 6a. Cephaloscyllium sarawakensis : Schaaf-Da Silva & Ebert, 2008: 25, figs 3, 5, 10, 16, tab. 3.

Taiwan voucher material: (26 spec.) CAS 224882 , female 161 mm TL, Dong-gang, April 1988. See Nakaya et al. (2013) for information of additional specimens examined .

Remarks: This species is common at around southern Taiwan.

Conservation status: Data Deficient.

Cephaloscyllium umbratile Jordan & Fowler, 1903

Japanese swellshark / ỐŌĀḛ

Cephaloscyllium umbratile Jordan and Fowler, 1903: 602, fig 1. Holotype: SU 12793 , adult male 975 mm TL, collected from Nagasaki, Japan, 32°43′N, 129°50′E, stuffed skin.

Local synonymy: Galeus eastmani: Shen, 1984b: 2 , fig. 4-2. Cephaloscyllium isabellum: Chen & Joung, 1993: 55 , pl. 5.8; Cephaloscyllium umbratile : Schaaf-Da Silva & Ebert, 2008: 15, fig. 12, tab. 2; Shen & Wu, 2011: 64, fig.

Taiwan voucher material: (47 spec.) CSIRO H 5611-04 , juvenile male 205 mm TL , CSIRO H 5611-08 , juvenile male 300 mm TL, Da-xi, 1 Aug 2000 ; CSIRO H 6295-22 , juvenile male 330 mm TL, Da-xi, 24 May 2005 ; HUMZ 213790 (tissue accession GN9907 ), male 798 mm TL , HUMZ 213791 (tissue accession GN9908 ), male 813 mm TL , MNHN 2013-0494 (tissue accession GN9909 ), female 805 mm TL , MNHN 2013-0495 (tissue accession GN9910 ), female 764 mm TL, Da-xi, 13 Mar 2012 ; MNHN 2013-0439 (tissue accession GN9985 ), female 196 mm TL, Da-xi, 14 Mar 2012 ; AMNH 258159 (tissue accession GN10061 ), juvenile male 329 mm TL, Nan-fangao, 14 Mar 2012 . See Nakaya et al. (2013) for information of additional specimens examined.

Remarks: The holotype was reported by Springer (1979), Compagno (1984, 1988), and others to be lost, but was subsequently found during a move at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, and redescribed by Schaaf-Da Silva and Ebert (2008). This species is very common around northern Taiwan.

Conservation status: Data Deficient.