Slender smooth-hound journal "Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand". Garrick named the species "Triakis attenuata", in reference to its extremely slender ("attenuate") body. In 1973, Leonard Compagno proposed a separate genus for the slender smooth-hound: "Gollum", after the character in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings", "to whom this shark bears some resemblance in form and habits." He placed "Gollum" with the finback catsharks (Proscylliidae), but also noted its many anatomical similarities to the false catshark ("Pseudotriakis microdon"). At the time, Compagno chose to maintain "Pseudotriakis" as the sole member of the family Pseudotriakidae because of its
Smooth scheme only if the morphism "X" → Spec "k" is smooth. A smooth scheme over a field is regular and hence normal. In particular, a smooth scheme over a field is reduced. Define a variety over a field "k" to be an integral separated scheme of finite type over "k". Then any smooth separated scheme of finite type over "k" is a finite disjoint union of smooth varieties over "k". For a smooth variety "X" over the complex numbers, the space "X"(C) of complex points of "X" is a complex manifold, using the classical (Euclidean) topology. Likewise, for a smooth variety