Stegostoma Müller & Henle, 1837

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 : 306

Genus Stegostoma Müller & Henle, 1837

Zebra Sharks / dzḛé

Stegostoma Müller & Henle, 1837a: 112 . Type species: Squalus fasciatus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 , by original designation, equals Squalus fasciatus Hermann, 1783 .

Stegostoma fasciatum ( Hermann, 1783)

Zebra Shark / ǺṚdzḛ

Squalus fasciatum Hermann, 1783: 302 . Based on Squalus varius Seba, 1758 . A senior homonym of Squalus fasciatus Bonnaterre, 1788 = Poroderma africanum ( Gmelin, 1789) . No types known to exist. Also, Squalus fasciatus Bloch, 1785: 19 , pl. 113. Holotype: ZMB 4449, 355 mm TL male, Indian Ocean from Tranquebar, according to Paepke & Schmidt (1988: 163).

Local synonymy: Stegostoma tigrinum: Günther, 1870: 409 ; Regan, 1908: 363; Jordan et al., 1913: 10; Fowler, 1941:100, fig.7. Stegostoma varium: Nakamura, 1936: 14 , pl. 5; Matsubara, 1936b: 48, figs., 34, 35; Chen, 1948: 25; 1951: 181 (list); 1956: 14. Stegostoma fasciatum: Fowler, 1941: 100 , fig. 7; Teng, 1962: 65, fig. 16; Chen, 1963: 20, fig. 5 (THUP 778, female, 305 mm TL; THUP 1674, male, 390 mm TL; THUP 969, male, 1055 mm TL); Shen, 1984a: 52, fig.; Chen & Yu, 1986: 122; Chen & Joung, 1993: 47, pl. 4.5; Shen & Wu, 2011: 57, fig.;

Taiwan voucher material: (3 spec.) NMMB-P 15726 ; NMMB-P 1354 , NMMB-P 1355 (2 spec.), Dong-gang (the latter two lots are the same specimens examined in Chen, 1963) .

Remarks: Records of this species occurring in Taiwanese waters date back to Günther (1870) and Chen (1963) reported on several specimens from Dong-gang and Keelung that included both juveniles and adults, but to the best of our knowledge this species has not been observed at fish markets in Taiwan in recent years. Since this is primarily a coastal, tropical reef species, which may never have been very common locally, combined with the intense coastal fishing that has occurred over the past couple of decades it may no longer occur locally. A living specimen exhibited in the NMMBA aquarium was collected from Taiwanese waters.

Conservation status: Vulnerable.