Triakidae (Houndsharks)

Moore, Alec B. M., Ward, Robert D. & Peirce, Richard, 2012, Sharks of the Persian (Arabian) Gulf: a first annotated checklist (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii), Zootaxa 3167, pp. 1-16 : 12

Triakidae (Houndsharks)

A record of the blacktip tope Hypogaleus hyugaensis ( Miyosi, 1939) in the Gulf was first reported in Compagno (1984), apparently inserted without this author’s knowledge and on an uncertain basis (LJV Compagno, pers. comm.). Randall (1986, Fig. 39) presented a photograph of the then undescribed Paragaleus randalli from Bahrain as H. hyugaensis . Currently H. hyugaensis is known from southern and eastern Africa, Australia, Taiwan and Japan, and seems to be a deeper-water species than P. randalli (LJV Compagno, pers. comm.). As yet there is no evidence for this species in the Gulf.