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Elasmobranchii (sharks and rays) > Carcharhiniformes (Ground sharks) > Scyliorhinidae (Cat sharks) > Scyliorhininae
Etymology: Cephaloscyllium: cephalus, from kephale (Gr.), head, referring to its very broad and depressed head; skylion, Greek for dogfish or small shark. (See ETYFish); formosanum: --anum, Latin adjectival suffix that means, when attached to a name, “belonging to”: Formosa, or Taiwan, referring to type locality off southwestern coast of Taiwan. (See ETYFish).

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Marine; reef-associated; depth range ? - 366 m (Ref. 94801). Subtropical

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Northwest Pacific: Taiwan.

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Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 65.6 cm TL (female)

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This species is distinguished by the following characters: with four broad dark saddle blotches before first dorsal fin, the first saddle just behind eye, second saddle over gill openings, third saddle above inner margin of pectoral fin and fourth above pelvic fin origin; presence of a narrow dark band between third and fourth saddle blotches; body with numerous small white spots; margins of egg case indented (Ref. 94801).

A medium-sized species that matures at size less than 65 cm TL (Ref. 94801).

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Nakaya, K., S. Inque and H.-C. Ho, 2013. A review of the genus Cephaloscyllium (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) from Taiwanese waters. Zootaxa 3752(1):101-129. (Ref. 94801)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 27 August 2019

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = No PD50 data [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00263 (0.00139 - 0.00497), b=3.21 (3.04 - 3.38), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 4.1 ±0.5 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives

Resilience (Ref. 120179): Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Moderate to high vulnerability (46 of 100).

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