Carcharhinus falciformis (Bibron, 1839)

White, William T. & Ko’Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, Zootaxa 4411 (1), pp. 1-82 : 34

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5983118
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scientific name	Carcharhinus falciformis (Bibron, 1839)
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Silky Shark

Carcharias (Prionodon) falciformis Bibron in Müller & Henle, 1839: 47 . Holotype: MNHN 0000-1134. Type locality: Cuba, Western Atlantic .

Local synonymy: Carcharhinus falciformis— Filewood, 1973: 7 (Papua New Guinea); Kailola, 1987: 14 (PNG); White et al., 2018: 142, figs (PNG).

PNG voucher material: (2 spec.) AKPM 4 View Materials (dried jaws), juvenile female ~ 1300 mm TL, Rabaul, East New Britain ; KFRS E.046 (dried jaws), Cape Saint George, New Ireland, May 1965 .

Remarks: First recorded from PNG by Filewood (1973). Caught in large numbers by the pelagic longline and purse seine fisheries in PNG. Commonly misidentified as Carcharhinus brachyurus ( Günther, 1870) , which does not occur in PNG, and C. galapagensis (Snodgrass & Heller, 1905) which has not been verified from PNG.