blochii, Zygaena Cuvier [G.] 1816:127 [Le Règne Animal; ref. 993] No locality. Holotype (unique): ZMB 7835 (stuffed). Type catalog: Paepke & Schmidt 1988:170 [ref. 21041], Paepke 1999:143 [ref. 24282]. Based on Bloch Pl. 117 and brief description. •Valid as Sphyrna blochii (Cuvier 1816) -- (Gilbert 1967:20 [ref. 21135], Gubanov & Timoxin 1989:224 [ref. 36138], Paxton et al. 1989:86 [ref. 12442], Randall et al. 1990:23 [ref. 15987], Randall 1995:38 [ref. 22896], Mishra et al. 1999:82 [ref. 25315]). •Valid as Eusphyra blochii (Cuvier 1816) -- (Compagno 1984:540 [ref. 6846], Allen & Swainston 1988:24 [ref. 25477], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:26 [ref. 20764], Last & Stevens 1994:271 [ref. 23873], Allen 1997:44 [ref. 23977], Compagno 1998:1363 [ref. 23785], Morón et al. 1999:148 [ref. 24253] as Eusphyrna, Compagno 1999:484 [ref. 25589], Compagno in Randall & Lim 2000:580 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:14 [ref. 25847], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S92 [ref. 27377], Compagno et al. 2005:45 [ref. 29145], Hoese et al. 2006:110 [ref. 29001], Last el al. 2010:134 [ref. 32461], Lim et al. 2010:575 [ref. 39445], Larson et al. 2013:12 [ref. 32988] as blochi, Ebert et al. 2013:339 [ref. 33045], Psomadakis et al. 2015:87 [ref. 34104], Weigmann 2016:44 [ref. 34211], White et al. 2017:184 [ref. 35860], Ali et al. 2018:302 [ref. 36183], Kumar et al. 2018:297 [ref. 36178], Suresh et al. 2018:43 [ref. 36495], White & Ko'ou 2018:42 [ref. 35922], Eagderi et al. 2019:8 [ref. 37020] as Eusphyrna blochii, Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 2 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:182 [ref. 37272], Haroon & Kibria 2021:68 [ref. 39241], Aschliman & Ebert 2022:539 [ref. 39668], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:25 [ref. 41223]). Current status: Valid as Eusphyra blochii (Cuvier 1816). Sphyrnidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf east to Philippines, north to China, south to northern Australia. Habitat: brackish, marine.