Loxodon macrorhinus Müller & Henle, 1839

White, William T. & Ko’Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, Zootaxa 4411 (1), pp. 1-82 : 39

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:255EE06E-3171-41F3-BB3D-E7D29537A292
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5983168
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scientific name	Loxodon macrorhinus Müller & Henle, 1839
status

Treatment

Sliteye Shark

Loxodon macrorhinus Müller & Henle, 1839: 61 , pl. 25. Holotype: ZMB 4479. Type locality: unknown (probably Indian Ocean).

Local synonymy: Loxodon macrorhinus— Filewood, 1973: 4 (PNG); Kailola, 1987: 18 (Tuma Island; Orangerie Bay; Gulf of Papua); White et al., 2018: 168, figs (PNG).

PNG voucher material: None.

Remarks: First recorded from PNG by Filewood (1973). Recently observed in low numbers, probably due to their small size, off southern New Ireland and northern East New Britain in the catches of the target shark longline fishery; no specimens retained but vertebrae and genetic samples taken; identification confirmed with molecular data (S. Appleyard, unpubl. data). A photograph of a specimen caught as bycatch by a deepwater snapper fisher off Kavieng district, New Ireland, also verified as this species. Depth of capture not known but> 100 m depth.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Chondrichthyes
Order	Carcharhiniformes
Family	Carcharhinidae
Genus	Loxodon