Annotated checklist of the fishes of the archipelago of Madeira (NE Atlantic): I-Chondrichthyes Author Biscoito, Manuel Author Ribeiro, Cláudia Author Freitas, Mafalda text Zootaxa 2018 2018-06-07 4429 3 459 494 journal article 29945 10.11646/zootaxa.4429.3.2 afb60108-82be-4cff-9898-088349da5006 1175-5326 1285016 17EAB027-D9FB-4B8A-9847-3AA76EC96FCB Family Odontaspididae * Odontaspis ferox (Risso, 1810) —Tubarão-da-areia; Smalltooth sand tiger Maul 1955 : 1 (as Carcharias ferox ) Springer 1973b : 11 | Compagno 1984a : 219–221; 2001:64–66 | Quéro 1984b : 80 | Springer 1990 : 81–82 | Lloris et al . 1991 : 234 | Sanches 1986 : 52 | Carneiro et al . 2014 : 10. Distribution in Macaronesia. Madeira , Azores ( Santos et al . 1997 ; Porteiro et al . 2010 ), Canary Islands ( Brito et al . 2002 ; Brito Hernández & Sancho Rafel 2003) and Cape Verde ( Reiner 1996 , 2005 ; Menezes et al . 2004 ). Remarks. there are two specimens in the MMF collection, a skin (MMF 2478) and a mounted specimen on exhibition (MMF 2678), both obtained in 1941. Maul (1948) refers only the presence of the genus Odontaspis , as O. noronhai was already in the collection, but not yet described, and conspired it very rare. * ▲ Odontaspis noronhai ( Maul, 1955 ) —No common name in Madeira ; Bigeye sand tiger shark ( Fig. 3 ) Maul 1955 : 3 as Carcharias noronhai Springer 1973b : 11 | Cadenat & Blache 1981 : 131–132 | Compagno 1984a 221–222 | Quéro 1984b : 81 | Springer 1990 : 82 | Lloris et al . 1991 : 204 | Sanches 1986 : 53 | Carneiro et al . 2014 : 10 Distribution in Macaronesia. recorded only from Madeira . Remarks. Madeira is type locality. The holotype is a mounted female specimen, caught off Câmara de Lobos, Madeira , between 600–1600 meters of depth in 13/04/1941 (MMF 2691). A formalin preserved specimen (MMF 3376) is also present in MMF collection, but collection details are unknown. Maul (1948) states the genus Odontaspis as very rare.