Eucrossorhinus dasypogon ( Bleeker 1867 )

White, William T. & Ko’Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, Zootaxa 4411 (1), pp. 1-82 : 16

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scientific name	Eucrossorhinus dasypogon ( Bleeker 1867 )
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Eucrossorhinus dasypogon ( Bleeker 1867)

Tasselled Wobbegongs

Crossorhinus dasypogon Bleeker, 1867: 400 , pl. 21 (fig. 1). Syntypes:?BMNH 1867.11.28.209, RMNH 7411, RMNH 5118 About RMNH . Type locality: Waigio and Aru Islands, Indonesia .

Local synonymy: Orectolobus dasypogon —Ogilby & McCulloch (1908): 272 (Samarai Island); Fowler, 1934: 385 (Samarai Island); Filewood, 1973: 9 (PNG). Orectolobus ogilbyi —Regan, 1909: 529 (Samarai Island); Fowler, 1941: 97 (New Guinea). Eucrossorhinus dasypogon— Whitley, 1940: 83 (Samarai and Kwato islands); Munro, 1967: 5, pl. 1, fig. 2 (New Guinea); Compagno, 1984: 180 (PNG); Compagno, 2001: 151 (PNG); Allen et al., 2003: 112 (Milne Bay); Baine & Harasti, 2007: 93, fig. (Bootless Bay); Last & Stevens, 2009: 135 (PNG); Drew et al., 2012: 5 (Bootless Bay); White et al., 2018: 60, figs (PNG).

PNG voucher material: (4 spec.) AMS I.5405 (syntype of Orectolobus ogilbyi ), adult male 1160 mm TL, Samarai Island , Milne Bay Province , 10°37’ S, 150°40’ E, 1902; AMS IB.4783 [section of jaw registered as AMS I.40874-001; selection of teeth as AMS I.41134-001], adult male 1144 mm TL, Morobe Province GoogleMaps , 6°25’ S, 147°12’ E, 1960; KFRS E.037B (dried jaws only), female ~ 1440 mm TL, Basilisk Passage , Central Province, ~ 9°32’09” S, 147°07’51” E, Aug. 1964 GoogleMaps ; PMH 308-1 About PMH (dried jaws only), public fish camp at Kairuku , 5 m depth, 26 Nov. 1996 .

Remarks: First recorded from off Samarai Island based on specimen AMS I.5405 which was included in Ogilby & McCulloch’s (1908) revision of the Orectolobidae as Orectolobus dasypogon . Regan (1909) considered this specimen and Torres Strait material as a distinct species Orectolobus ogilbyi . Seen by divers at various locations throughout PNG.