Isistius plutodus Garrick & Springer, 1964

Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, Zootaxa 4947 (1), pp. 1-127 : 36

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scientific name	Isistius plutodus Garrick & Springer, 1964
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Isistius plutodus Garrick & Springer, 1964 View in CoL

Largetooth Cookiecutter Shark

Isistius plutodus Garrick & Springer, 1964: 679 View in CoL , figs. 1–2. Holotype (unique): USNM 188386 About USNM . Type locality: Off GoogleMaps coast of Alabama, U.S.A., 28°58'N, 88°18'W.

Local synonymy: Isistius plutodus: Jahn & Haedrich, 1987: 298 View in CoL , fig. 47; Ebert et al., 2013 a: 171, fig., pl. 17: Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 144; Compagno, 2016: 1212; Weigmann, 2016: 892; de Figueiredo Petean & de Carvalho, 2018: 36, fig. 23.

South Africa voucher material: None.

South Africa distribution: Unconfirmed from South African waters, but its occurrence would not be unexpected .

Remarks: Jahn & Haedrich (1987) reported this species from off South Africa, but no specimens are available to confirm its presence in these waters.

Conservation status: LC (2015).