tessellatus, Centrophorus Garman [S.] 1906:205 [Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology v. 46 (no. 11); ref. 1542] East of Japan, off Honshu Island, 35°08'20"N, 139°31-30'E, depth 400 fathoms. Holotype (unique): MCZ 1031-S [ex Owston #8282]. Type catalog: Hartel & Dingerkus 1997:xli [ref. 23119]. •Valid as Centrophorus tessellatus Garman 1906 -- (Compagno 1984:44 [ref. 6474], Nakaya & Shirai in Masuda et al. 1984:10 [ref. 6441] as tesselatus, Gubanov & Timoxin 1989:225 [ref. 36138] as tesselatus, Yano & Kugai 1993:47 [ref. 23206], Adam et al. 1998:7 [ref. 23610], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:109 [ref. 23897], Compagno 1999:472 [ref. 25589], Nakabo 2000:154 [ref. 25086], Nakabo 2002:154 [ref. 26001], Compagno 2003:392 [ref. 26984] as cf. tessellatus, Baranes 2003:51 [ref. 27888] as tesselatus, Kiraly et al. 2003:11 [ref. 28226] as cf. tessellatus, Bonfil & Abdallah 2004:16 [ref. 27735], Shinohara et al. 2005:396 [ref. 28370], Mundy 2005:103 [ref. 28379], Castro 2011:79 [ref. 31457], Yamashita et al. 2012:126 [ref. 32408], White et al. 2013:65 [ref. 33033], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:59 [ref. 34398] as aff. tessellatus, Weigmann 2016:54 [ref. 34211], White et al. 2017:111 [ref. 35673]). Current status: Valid as Centrophorus tessellatus Garman 1906. Centrophoridae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Maldives, southern Japan, Hawaiian Islands, possibly off North America. Habitat: marine.