Hemitriakis Herre 1923
- Dataset
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Elasmobranchii
- order
- Carcharhiniformes
- family
- Triakidae
- genus
- Hemitriakis
description
Fowler (1941) cited a record of Hemitriakis japanica from Amboina, while Fourmanoir & Rancurel (1972) reported H. japanica from New Caledonia. We have not been able to verify the Amboina record, but a large New Caledonian Hemitriakis was deposited by P. Fourmanoir in the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, as Galeorhinus japanicus. This specimen has a much higher vertebral count than all other Hemitriakis except H. abdita and may represent another undescribed species of Hemitriakis or possibly an adult of H. abdita.
Name
- Homonyms
- Hemitriakis Herre 1923
- Hemitriakis