Triaenodon 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 : 338

Genus Triaenodon Müller & Henle, 1837a

Whitetip Reef Shark / Ξǿḛé

Triaenodon Müller & Henle, 1837a: 113 . Type species: Carcharias obesus Rüppell, 1837 , by subsequent monotypy; appeared first without species then added by Bonaparte (1838).

Triaenodon obesus ( Rüppell 1837)

Whitetip Reef Shark / DzΞǿḛ

Carcharias obesus Rüppell, 1837: 64 , pl. 18 (fig. 2). Lectotype: SMF 3149 (stuffed), 310 mm, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Red Sea; lectotype designation by Klausewitz (1960).

Local synonymy: Triaenodon obesus: Teng, 1958: 18 , fig. 12; Teng, 1962: 104, fig. 28; Chen, 1963: 51; Chen & Joung, 1993: 68, pl. 9 (fig. 1); Shen & Wu, 2011: 73, fig.

Taiwan voucher material: No specimens examined in this study.

Remarks: Appears to be rare in Taiwanese waters, either naturally or due to extirpation.

Conservation status: Near Threatened.