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THE CORAL TRIANGLE: HEARST BIODIVERSITY EXPEDITION 
Annotated list of species collected on the Philippine Bureau of 
Fisheries and Aquatic Resources research vessel M/V DA-BFAR^ 
28 May to 5 June 2011 
Myxinidae (Lampreys) 
Myxine cf. formosana Mok and Kuo, 2001 (Fig. 5) 
Material.— CAS 233680 (440 mm TL, female with eggs, DC-1388); HEPD-013, traps in 587-604 m. 
Remarks.— This speeimen is tentatively identified by Miehael Minearone and MeCosker (this volume) as 
Myxine formosana. It represents the fli'st Philippine speeimen of the species. 
Eptalretus luzonicus Fernholm, Noren, Kullander, Quattrini, Zintzen, Roberts, Mok, and Kuo, 2013 
(Fig. 6) 
Material.— CAS 233675 (563 mm TL); HEPD-023, traps set in 578-710 m. CAS 233676 (3, 334^30 rmn 
TL); HEPD-013, traps set in 587-604 m. NPM 1999 (443 mm TL); collected with CAS 233676. 
Remarks. — Minearone and MeCosker (this volume) have discovered the lost holotype of Eptatretiis luzon¬ 
icus (= Eptatretus fernho I mi McMillan and Wisner, 2004), lost prior to its description; they redescribed it 
along with the five specimens collected during tlie Hearst Expedition. 
Chimaeridae (Shortnose cmMAERAS OR Ratfishes) 
Hydrolagus deani (Smith and Radcliffe, 1912) (Fig. 7) 
Material.— CAS 235485 (female, 730 mm TL, DC-1413); HEPD 016, otter trawl in 892-966 m. 
Remarks.— The Phihppine Chimaera is known only from the PhiUppines. 
Scyliorhinidae (Cat sharks) 
Apristurus platyrhynchus Tanaka, 1909 (Fig. 8) 
Material.— CAS 234027 (225 mm TL, DC-1405); HEPD-015, beam trawl in 757-836 m. 
Remarks.— Distributed from southern Japan, Taiwan, to northern Borneo, the East China Sea, the Philip¬ 
pines and the South China Sea at depths between approximately 600 and 1000 m. 
Cephaloscyllium sp. (Fig. 9a-c) 
Material.— (7 specimens trapped and trawled at 355-480 m.) 
Remarks.— MeCosker sent pictures and the sequencing map provided by Anna Sellas (CAS) to Peter Last, 
the CSIRO shark biologist who has done so much work on this group. Last has advised MeCosker that he 
has a market specimen from the PhiUppines tliat is most probably the same as ours and was in the process 
of describing it, and would like our involvement. He now has concerns about separating the Philippine 
material from another species that John E. Randall (BPBM) described as Cephaloscyllium stevensi Clark 
and Randall, 2011 from New Ireland, and is hying to get tissue fi-om that species. A juvenile specimen (135 
mm TL) was captured and cataloged as CAS 235500. Measui ements of the six larger specimens are here 
provided: DC-1313 (female, 580 mm TL); DC-1314 (mature male, 610 mm TL); DC-i315 (female, 625 
mm TL); CAS 235501, DC-1438 (immature male, 395 mm); DC-1576 (mature male, 520 mm TL); DC- 
1577 (immature male, 410 mm TL). 
Squalidae (Dogfish sharks) 
Etmoptems brachyums Smith and Radcliffe in Smith, 1912 (Fig. 10) 
Material.— CAS 233994 (2, 132-203 mm TL); HEPD-005, beam trawl in 459-496 m. 
Remarks.— Originally described from Jolo Is., Philippines; the species is also known from Japan and West¬ 
ern Australia. 
