Cephaloscyllium - The genus Cephaloscyllium was proposed by American ichthyologist Theodore Gill from the Greek kephale and skylion , in an 1862 issue of Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York.
Cephalurus - The lollipop catshark, Cephalurus cephalus, is a little-known species of deep sea catshark, family Scyliorhinidae, and the only described member of its genus.
Haploblepharus - The genus Haploblepharus was created by American zoologist Samuel Garman in 1913, in the 36th volume of Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, at Harvard College, to contain the puffadder shyshark, then known as Squalus edwardsii.