An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea
Author
White, William T.
Author
Ko’Ou, Alfred
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-04-19
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1
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Carcharhinus macloti
(Müller & Henle, 1839)
Hardnose Shark
Carcharias
(
Hypoprion
)
macloti
Müller & Henle, 1839: 34
, pl. 10.
Holotype
:
RMNH
(stuffed).
Type
locality: New
Guinea
.
Local synonymy:
Hypoprion
macloti—
Munro, 1958: 113 (Milne Bay Province, New Britain).
Carcharhinus
macloti—
Munro, 1967: 9, pl. 1, fig. 9 (New Guinea);
Filewood, 1973
: 6 (PNG);
Compagno, 1984
: 486 (New Guinea);
White
et al.
, 2018
: 152, figs (PNG).
PNG
voucher material:
(13 spec.).
CSIRO
H 7834-01, juvenile male
410 mm
TL, south of Deception Bay,
Gulf
of
Papua
,
8°1’54” S
,
144°39’13” E
,
22–25 m
depth,
15 Dec. 2014
;
CSIRO
H 7835-01, juvenile male
410 mm
TL, south of Deception Bay,
Gulf
of
Papua
,
8°2’16” S
,
144°38’26” E
,
22–23 m
depth,
15 Dec. 2014
;
CSIRO
H 7825-02 (dried jaw), female
840 mm
TL, east of Fly River mouth,
Gulf
of
Papua
,
8°37’ S
,
144°11’ E
,
17–19 m
depth,
13 Dec. 2014
;
CSIRO
H 8153-01 (dried jaw), adult male
770 mm
TL, east of Fly River mouth,
Gulf
of
Papua
,
8°36’48” S
,
144°11’19” E
,
17–23 m
depth,
1 Apr. 2015
;
CSIRO
H 8108-01 (dried jaw and cranium), female
810 mm
TL, south of Kerema,
Gulf
of
Papua
,
8°1’58.08” S
,
145°45’17.52” E
,
12–15 m
depth,
16 Sep. 2015
;
CSIRO
H 8152-02 (dried jaw and cranium), female
820 mm
TL, south of Deception Bay,
Gulf
of
Papua
,
8°9’ S
,
144°28’ E
,
19–23 m
depth,
9 Dec. 2014
;
KFRS
E.303 (5 sets of dried jaws), Orangerie Bay,
Jun. 1967
;
KFRS
E.739, female
380 mm
TL, south of Deception Bay,
Gulf
of
Papua
,
8°0’ S
,
144°42’ E
,
18–21 m
depth,
8 Dec. 2014
;
KFRS
E.751, juvenile male
390 mm
TL, Freshwater Bay,
Gulf
of
Papua
,
8°11’ S
,
146°1’ E
,
19–20 m
depth,
29 Nov. 2014
.
Remarks:
Holotype
collected by Heinrich Christian Macklot in
August 1828
during an expedition to New
Guinea
onboard the
HM corvette Triton
; although a German naturalist, he was employed through the Rijksmuseum in Leiden and the expedition was to Dutch New
Guinea
(=
West Papua
), thus not collected from
PNG
. First recorded from
PNG
by Munro (1958) from
Milne Bay Province
and
New Britain
. Commonly taken as bycatch in the
Gulf
of
Papua
prawn trawl fishery and by gillnet fishers at the mouth of the
Sepik
River.