The cartilaginous fish of marine Vietnam - an updating the checklist

Abstract

This review article is dedicated to the checklist and updating of the chondrichthyans-related scientific research for the area of Vietnamese waters. The published data inventory was conducted for many decades (1964–2023) and updated the new record of cartilaginous species collected some years ago. The inventory was done using the collecting data by typing keywords consisting of the valid binomial name of the relevant species that were published with vouchers from the marine Vietnam. In the checklist published in 2016, 174 species of chondrichthyans were noted as present in the waters of Viet Nam, which is here used as a breakpoint in the timeline and confirms geographic range and synonyms. The new records from vouchers were in the depot of the museum and added to the list. After emendation, a total of 165 chondrichthyan species have been recorded in Vietnamese waters to date, of which 164 species have published records and one species first record for Vietnam, Cephaloscyllium pictum Last, Séret & White, 2008.