 He illustrated one of the three specimens in his paper, "On the two species of the thresher shark from Formosan waters", published in August 1935.Nakamura also separately illustrated and described a fetus, that Leonard Compagno later concluded was probably of a common thresher.Several authors, including Gohar and Mazhar (1964, Red Sea), Kato, Springer and Wagner (1967, Eastern Pacific), Fourmanoir and Laboute (1976, New Caledonia), Johnson (1978, Tahiti), and Faughnan (1980, Hawaiian Islands) have published illustrations of "common threshers" that were in fact pelagic threshers.