 His account was based on two Indonesian specimens, one caught off Waigeo and the other off Aru.He gave it the name "dasypogon", from the Greek "dasys" ("hairy") and "pogon" ("beard"), and assigned it to the genus "Crossorhinus" (a synonym of "Orectolobus").In 1908, Charles Tate Regan created the new genus "Eucrossorhinus" for this species, derived from the Greek "eu" ("good"), "krossoi" ("tassel") and "rhinos" ("nose").