Family Pseudotriakidae - False catsharks
Order : Carcharhiniformes Pseudotriakidae
Class : Elasmobranchii
No. in FishBase : Genera : 3 | Species : 5 Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes
Environment : Fresh : No | Brackish : No | Marine : Yes
Division : Marine
Aquarium : none
First Fossil Record : upper   Jurassic     Ref. Berg, L.S. 1958
Remark : Big deep-water bottom-dwelling shark of the continental and insular slopes from 200 to 1500 m. Found in all oceans from Madagascar to Taiwan and Hawaii, and to Iceland. A large, bulky, dark-brown, soft-bodied shark with elongated, catlike eyes and nictitating eyelids, large spiracles, a huge, wide, angular mouth that reaches behind eyes, very short labial furrows, numerous small cuspidate teeth in 200 or more rows in each jaw. Two large spineless dorsal fins and an anal fin, the first dorsal fin being low, long and keel-like. Caudal fin with a strong ventral lobe. Ovoviviparous, with litters of 2 to possibly 4 young. Probably feeds on a variety of deepwater bony fishes, elasmobranchs and invertebrates.
Etymology : Greek, pseudes = false + Greek, triakis = thrice ( Ref. 45335).
Reproductive guild : bearers
Typical activity level : normal
Main Ref. : Ebert, D.A., K.V. Akhilesh and S. Weigmann 2019
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Species/Synonymy list for the family Pseudotriakidae as currently in FishBase

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Scientifc name Status Senior/Junior synonym Combination
Pseudotriakis microdon de Brito Capello, 1868
acceptedseniororiginal
Pseudotriakis acrales Jordan & Snyder, 1904
synonymjuniororiginal
! Pseudotriakis acrages Jordan & Snyder, 1904
synonymjuniororiginal
Gollum attenuatus (Garrick, 1954)
acceptedseniornew
Triakis attenuata Garrick, 1954
synonymseniororiginal
! Gollum attenuatum (Garrick, 1954)
synonymseniornew
Gollum suluensis Last & Gaudiano, 2011
acceptedseniororiginal
Planonasus parini Weigmann, Stehmann & Thiel, 2013
acceptedseniororiginal
Planonasus indicus Ebert, Akhilesh & Weigmann, 2018
acceptedseniororiginal
Planonasus sp. Not applicable
synonymotherother
Planonasus parini (non Weigmann, Stehmann & Thiel, 2013, 2013)
misappliedmisappliedoriginal
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