Sphyrna mokarran (Rüppell, 1837)

White, William T. & Ko’Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, Zootaxa 4411 (1), pp. 1-82 : 44

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5983202
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scientific name	Sphyrna mokarran (Rüppell, 1837)
status

Treatment

Great Hammerhead

Zygaena mokarran Rüppell, 1837: 66 , pl. 17 (fig. 3). Lectotype: SMF 3590 View Materials (stuffed); lectotype designation by Klausewitz (1960). Type locality: Massawa , Eritrea, Red Sea .

Local synonymy: Sphyrna tudes— Filewood, 1973: 2 (PNG). Sphyrna mokarran— Kailola, 1987: 21 (western Papua; Hall Sound; Port Moresby; Bootless Bay; Salamaua); White et al., 2018: 188, figs (PNG).

PNG voucher material: (2 spec.) KFRS E.176 (dried jaws), Tatana, Fairfax Harbour, Port Moresby, 7 Oct. 1965; KFRS E.259 (dried jaws), Kanudi Bay, Port Moresby, 4 Aug. 1966.

Remarks: First recorded from PNG by Filewood (1973) as S. tudes (= mokarran ). Recorded from prawn trawl fishery bycatch and from coastal fisheries catches during recent surveys, but in low numbers.

Abbreviations

PNG	Division of Primary Industry
KFRS	Kanudi Fisheries Research Station

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Elasmobranchii
Order	Carcharhiniformes
Family	Carcharhinidae
Genus	Sphyrna