Loxodon Müller & Henle, 1838

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 : 335-336

Genus Loxodon Müller & Henle, 1838

Sliteye Shark / Ṟǿḛé

Loxodon Müller & Henle, 1838a: 36 . Type species: Loxodon macrorhinus Müller & Henle, 1839 , by subsequent monotypy; appeared first with no included species.

Loxodon macrorhinus Müller & Henle, 1839

Sliteye Shark / ǠỖṞǿḛ

Loxodon macrorhinus Müller & Henle, 1839: 61 , pl. 25. Holotype: ZMB 4479 , embryo 315 mm TL, locality unknown (probably Indian Ocean).

Local synonymy: Loxodon macrorhinus: Chen & Yu, 1986: 137 ; Chen & Joung, 1993: 66, pl. 8 (fig. 7); Chen, 2004: 22; Shen & Wu, 2011: 72, fig.

Taiwan voucher material: (3 spec.) NMMB-P 6443 , Wu-chi, Taichong , 1 Dec 1962 ; NMMB-P 6456 , Wu-chi, Taichong , 1 Sep 1960 ; NMMB-P 6457 , Keelung, 1 Oct 1959 .

Remarks: Relatively commonly caught by coastal fisheries in Taiwan. Considered monotypic but recent molecular studies have revealed that there is likely two species occurring in the Indo-West Pacific ( Naylor et al, 2012).

Conservation status: Least Concern.