An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa Author Ebert, David A. Author Wintner, Sabine P. 0000-0001-7350-5999 Author Kyne, Peter M. 0000-0003-4494-2625 debert@mlml.calstate.edu text Zootaxa 2021 2021-03-17 4947 1 1 127 journal article 7365 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1 74dc998a-dc7a-4b02-b43c-a2064c9c6dc2 1175-5326 4614567 7F3B4794-65CF-4691-A330-78A423F2606F Hypogaleus hyugaensis ( Miyosi, 1939 ) Pencil Shark Eugaleus hyugaensis Miyosi, 1939: 91 , fig. 1. Holotype (unique): MGHSJ (lost). Type locality: off Hyuga Nada , east coast of Miyazaki Prefecture , Japan . Local synonymy : Galeorhinus zanzibarensis : D’Aubrey, 1964a: 22 , pl. 8. Hypogaleus hyugaensis : Bass et al .,1975b: 22 , fig. 15; Compagno, 1984b: 394 , fig.; Bass et al ., 1986: 79 , fig. 9.22; Compagno, 1988a: 15 ; Compagno et al ., 1989: 56 , pl.; Compagno, 1999: 119 ; Compagno et al ., 2005 : 265 , fig., pl. 44; Ebert et al ., 2013 a: 412, fig., pl. 54; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 145 ; Weigmann, 2016: 882 . South Africa voucher material : SAIAB 6163, SAIAB 6215 [ex ORI 2692], SAIAB 6217 [ex ORI 2928], SAIAB 10113, SAIAB 99086, SAIAB 99087, SAIAB 99088. South African distribution : The entire KZN coast. Remarks : Smith (1957b) described the genus Hypogaleus in his description of H. zanzibarensis from Zanzibar , but Bass et al . (1975b) found no differences between it and the western North Pacific H. hyugaensis . Subsequent authors ( Compagno, 1984b ; 1988a ) concurred with those findings and consider the genus to be monotypic with H. hyugaensis taking precedence. Conservation status : LC (2016).