FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes Western

Scyliorhinidae 1291
Halaelurus boesemani Springer and D’Aubrey, 1972
En - Speckled catshark; Fr - Holbiche mouchetée; Sp - Pejegato pintado.
Maximum total length about 48 cm. A little-known but wide-ranging bottom-dwelling shark of the
continental and insular shelves, at depths of 37 to 91 m. Of minor interest to fisheries at present. In
the Indo-West Pacific off Somalia, the Gulf of Aden, Western Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines,
and Viet Nam.
Parmaturus melanobranchius (Chan, 1966)
En - Blackgill catshark; Fr - Holbiche à joues noires; Sp - Pejegato de agallas negras.
Maximum total length about 85 cm. A poorly known deep-water bottom-dwelling shark from the
upper continental slopes off China, on mud bottom at depths of 549 to 810 m. Without interest to
fisheries. Known only from 3 specimens taken in the South China Sea.
Pentanchus profundicolus Smith and Radcliffe, 1912
En - Onefin catshark; Fr - Holbiche voile; Sp - Pejegato velero.
Maximum total length at least 50 cm. A poorly known deep-water bottom-dwelling shark inhabiting
the insular slopes. Without interest to fisheries. The holotype and only known specimen was taken
in the Mindanao Sea (Philippines).