Galeocerdo Müller & Henle, 1837a

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 : 335

Genus Galeocerdo Müller & Henle, 1837a

Tiger Shark / Àḛé

Galeocerdo Müller & Henle, 1837a: 115 . Type species: Squalus arcticus Faber, 1829 , by subsequent designation in Bonaparte (1838).

Galeocerdo cuvier (Péron & Lesueur in Lesueur, 1822)

Tiger Shark / Àḛ

Squalus cuvier Péron & Lesueur in Lesueur, 1822: 351. No types known; northwestern Australia.

Local synonymy: Galeocerdo rayneri: Nakamura, 1934: 486 ; Nakamura, 1936: 30, pl. 13, fig. 1; Matsubara, 1936b: 68, fig. 50; Chen, 1948: 34; Chen, 1956: 19; Teng, 1962: 119. Galeocerdo arcticus: Nakamura, 1936: 31 , pl. 13, fig. 2; Chen, 1948: 34; Chen, 1956: 19; Galeocerdo cuvier: Teng, 1962: 118 , fig. 31; Chen, 1963: 78; Chen & Joung, 1993: 65, pl. 8 (fig. 6); Chen, 2004: 22; Shao et al., 2008: 236; Shen & Wu, 2011: 72, fig. Galeocerdo cuvieri: Chen & Yu, 1986: 140 .

Taiwan voucher material: (2 spec.) ASIZP 60903 , 1010 mm TL, Da-xi, 12 Aug 2001 ; NMMB-P 15768 , 30 Aug 2010 .

Remarks: Abundant in landings at the Nan-fang-ao fish market, with an average of 31.4 tons landed annually from 1989–1994; main fishing season at Nan-fang-ao is June and July ( Chen et al., 2002). Considered monotypic but recent molecular studies have revealed that there is possibly two species, one in the Atlantic Ocean and one in the Indo-Pacific ( Naylor et al, 2012); if two species are considered valid for in this genus, G. cuvier will be retained for the Indo-Pacific species.

Conservation status: Near Threatened.