An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea
Author
White, William T.
Author
Ko’Ou, Alfred
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-04-19
4411
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1
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journal article
30231
10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1
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1175-5326
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Isurus oxyrinchus
Rafinesque, 1810a
Shortfin Mako
Isurus oxyrinchus
Rafinesque, 1810a: 12
, pl. 13, fig. 1. Also Rafinesque, 1810b: 45.
Holotype
unknown.
Type
locality:
Sicily
, Mediterranean Sea.
Local synonymy:
Isurus
oxyrinchus—
Kailola, 1987
: 3 (Kavieng);
White
et al.
, 2018
: 88, figs (PNG).
PNG voucher material:
None.
Remarks:
Caught as bycatch in the pelagic longline fisheries in
PNG
; verified by photographs, with accompanying muscle and vertebral samples, from fisheries observers. A dried jaw previously identified as
I. oxyrinchus
(AKPM 4) was re-identified as
Carcharhinus falciformis
.