Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque, 1810a

White, William T. & Ko’Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, Zootaxa 4411 (1), pp. 1-82 : 24

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5983007
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scientific name	Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque, 1810a
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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 .