Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Parvphylum Chondrichthyes > Class Elasmobranchii > Subclass Neoselachii > Infraclass Selachii > Superorder Galeomorphi > Order Carcharhiniformes > Family Pseudotriakidae > Genus Pseudotriakis

Pseudotriakis microdon de Brito Capello, 1868

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pseudotriakis*	de Brito Capello, 1868	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: false cat shark; false catshark sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS);Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024).

German: falsche Marderhai; falscher Katzenhai sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Japanese: チヒロザメ sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Lithuanian: mažadantis katryklis sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: ложнокунья акула; мелкозубая акула sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: Musolón de aleta larga sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Акула куняча несправжня

Literature

original description	de Brito Capello, F. (1868). Descripção de dois peixes novos provenientes dos mares de Portugal. Jornal do Sciências Mathemáticas, Physicas e Naturaes, Lisboa. v. 1 (no. 4) (for Dec. 1867): 314-317, Pl. 5.
basis of record	van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374
additional source	Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024).
additional source	King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 431-554.
additional source	Robins, C. R.; Ray, G. C.; Douglass, J.; Freund, R. (1986). A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston. 1-354.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
ecology source	Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1).

Genbank

External Links

FishBase
FishBase images (Pseudotriakis microdon, Chinese Taipei, by The Fish Database of Taiwan)

Citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Pseudotriakis microdon de Brito Capello, 1868. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:105805