asterias, Mustelus Cloquet [H.] 1819:407 (v. 14) [Dictionnaire des sciences Naturelles; ref. 852] Europe (including Marseille, France and Lesbos, Greece, Mediterranean Sea). No types known. •Valid as Mustelus asterias Cloquet 1819 -- (Compagno 1973:28 [ref. 7163], Branstetter in Whitehead et al. 1984:119 [ref. 13675], Compagno 1984:402 [ref. 6846], Capapé 1987:22 [ref. 39326], Springer 1990:97 [ref. 19320], Compagno 1999:481 [ref. 25589], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:13 [ref. 26753], Golani 2005:9 [ref. 37112], Fricke et al. 2007:13 [ref. 29533], George 2009:55 [ref. 30539], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:8 [ref. 36649], Weigmann 2016:47 [ref. 34211], Compagno 2016:1278 [ref. 34544], Biscoito et al. 2018:484 [ref. 37562], Almeida & Biscoito 2019:76 [ref. 37302], Carneiro et al. 2019:23 [ref. 37250], Bariche & Fricke 2020:12 [ref. 37515], Kabasakal 2020:82 [ref. 37952], Kovačić et al. 2020:6 [ref. 37519], Serena et al. 2020:502 [ref. 37963], Giovos et al. 2021:5 [ref. 38895], Golani 2021:7 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:11 [ref. 39014], Bañón & Mano 2022:10 [ref. 40121], Barone et al. 2022:29 [ref. 39527], Balàka et al. 2023:8 [ref. 40410], Shakman et al. 2023:463 [ref. 40810]). Current status: Valid as Mustelus asterias Cloquet 1819. Triakidae: Triakinae. Distribution: North Sea; Mediterranean Sea; eastern Atlantic: British Isles south to Mauritania, including Madeira and Canary Islands. Habitat: marine.