hispidum, Scyllium Alcock [A. W.] 1891:21 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 6) v. 8 (no. 43/44); ref. 87] Andaman Sea, 11°31'40"N, 92°46'40"E, Investigator station 115, depth 188-220 fathoms. Holotype (unique): ZSI F13120. Type catalog: Menon & Yazdani 1968:95 [ref. 20743]. Figured in Alcock 1894: Pl. 8 (figs. 3, 3a) [ref. 17304]. •Valid as Halaelurus hispidus (Alcock 1891) -- (Compagno 1984:325 [ref. 6846], Gubanov & Timoxin 1989:222 [ref. 36138], Manilo 1992:20 [130] [ref. 39140], Compagno 1999:479 [ref. 25589], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S91 [ref. 27377]). •Valid as Bythaelurus hispidus (Alcock 1891) -- (White et al. 2007:1 [ref. 29295], Last & Stevens 2008:123 [ref. 29681], McCosker et al. 2012:58 [ref. 31823], Ebert & Clerkin 2015:54 [ref. 33848], Kaschner et al. 2015:136 [ref. 33953], Weigmann 2016:36 [ref. 34211], Weigmann & Kaschner 2017:116 [ref. 35311], Kumar et al. 2018:296 [ref. 36178], Weigmann et al. 2018:37 [ref. 36365], Psomadakis et al. 2020:168 [ref. 37272]). Current status: Valid as Bythaelurus hispidus (Alcock 1891). Pentanchidae. Distribution: Indian Ocean: East Africa and Socotra (Yemen) east to Myanmar and Andaman Sea. Habitat: marine.