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
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Family
Lamnidae
Carcharodon carcharias
(Linnaeus, 1758)
—Tubarão-branco, Great white shark
Lichtenstein 1844
: 2 (as
Squalus carcharias
)
Albuquerque
1954
–1956: 89 |
Springer 1973a
: 13 |
Compagno 1984a
: 238–242; 2001: 100 |
Quéro 1984b
: 84 |
Sanches 1986
: 56 |
Lloris
et al
. 1991
: 223 |
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
).
Remarks.
although there are no specimens in MMF collection, the species is included in the present checklist since it was visually identified several times in
Madeira
EEZ, including by one of the authors (MB). The DSI reported a capture in 1982 of one specimen in a tuna longline at a depth of
168–200 m
, SW of
Porto
Santo.
Wirtz
et al
. (2008)
did not include it in their checklist since it was not considered a coastal fish (recorded only from the open ocean).
*
Isurus oxyrinchus
Rafinesque, 1810
—
Marracho; Shortfin mako
Günther 1870
: 390 |
Noronha & Sarmento 1934
: 115 (as
Lamna spallanzanii
)
Maul 1948
: 138 |
Nunes 1953
: 158 |
Noronha & Sarmento 1948
: 111 (as
Lamna oxyrinchus
)
Albuquerque
1954
–56: 87 (as
Isurus oxyrhynchus
sic)
Fowler 1936
: 33 |
Springer 1973a
: 14 |
Cadenat & Blache 1981
: 157–160 |
Quéro 1984b
: 85 |
Sanches 1986
: 57 |
Wirtz
et al
. 2008
: 2 |
Carneiro
et al
. 2014
: 11.
Distribution in Macaronesia.
Madeira
,
Azores
(
Santos
et al
. 1997
;
Porteiro
et al
. 2010
), the Canary Islands (
Brito
et al
. 2002
; Brito Hernández & Sancho Rafel 2003) and
Cape Verde
(
Reiner 1996
,
2005
;
Wirtz
et al
. 2013
).
Remarks.
Maul (1948)
refers as doubtful record (see Remarks on next species), but there are one mounted specimen (no date) in MMF exhibition and two formalin preserved specimens dated from 2011 (MMF 41667) and 2015 (MMF 44383).
*
Lamna nasus
(Bonnaterre, 1788)
—Marracho; Porbeagle
Lowe 1838
:194 |
Belloc 1934
: 138 |
Noronha & Sarmento 1934
: 115 and 140 |
Nobre 1935
: 430 (as
Lamna cornubica
)
Fowler 1936
: 32 |
Albuquerque
1954
–56: 86 (as
Isurus nasus
)
Noronha & Sarmento 1948
: 111 |
Maul 1948
: 137 |
Nunes 1953
: 158 |
Springer 1973a
: 13 |
Sanches 1986
: 55 |
Compagno 1984a
: 248–249 |
Wirtz
et al
. 2008
: 2 |
Carneiro
et al
. 2014
: 11.
Distribution in Macaronesia.
Madeira
,
Azores
(
Santos
et al
. 1997
;
Porteiro
et al
. 2010
), Canary Islands (
Brito
et al
. 2002
) and
Cape Verde
(
Reiner 1996
,
2005
).
Remarks.
although there are no preserved specimens collected in
Madeira
, these waters are inside the species’ distribution area (
Ebert & Stehmann 2013
). Moreover, a recent study on migration patterns of porbeagle shark in the Northeast Atlantic, confirmed the occurrence of this species to Madeiran waters, with one of the tagged sharks being spotted off
Madeira
(
Biais
et al
. 2017
).
Wirtz
et al
. (2008)
refer that it was erroneously noted as common by
Maul (1948)
, due to a typographical error. This remark was originally meant for
Isurus oxyrhynchus
and the reference to a doubtful presence, for
L. nasus
. (
pers. comm.
of G. E. Maul to M. Biscoito).