sentences:  The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) currently lacks the data to assess its conservation status.Renowned shark expert Stewart Springer described the longfin sawtail catshark in a 1966 issue of the "United States Fish and Wildlife Service Fishery Bulletin", based on a long female collected off Panama on May 30, 1962.He named the species after French zoologist Jean Cadenat, who described the similar African sawtail catshark ("G. polli").