Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey, 1861)

White, William T. & Ko’Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, Zootaxa 4411 (1), pp. 1-82 : 35

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5983136

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scientific name

Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey, 1861)
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Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey, 1861)

Oceanic Whitetip Shark

Squalus longimanus Poey, 1861: 338 , pl. 19 (figs 9, 10). No type known. Type locality: Cuba, Western Atlantic .

Local synonymy: Carcharhinus maou— Filewood, 1973: 7 (PNG). Carcharhinus longimanus— Kailola, 1987: 17 (Kranket Island; Milne Bay); White et al., 2018: 150, figs (PNG).

PNG voucher material: None.

Remarks: First recorded from PNG by Filewood (1973) as Carcharhinus maou (Lesson, 1829) , a junior synonym of C. longimanus . Records of Kranket Island and Milne Bay by Kailola (1987) based on two destroyed KFRS specimens (E.94, Kranket Island, Madang, Dec. 1962; E. 322, 2020 mm TL, Milne Bay district, 2 Aug. 1967).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Chondrichthyes

Order

Carcharhiniformes

Family

Carcharhinidae

Genus

Carcharhinus

Loc

Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey, 1861)

White, William T. & Ko’Ou, Alfred 2018
2018
Loc

Squalus longimanus

Poey 1861: 338
1861
Loc

Carcharhinus

Blainville 1816
1816
Loc

Carcharhinus

Blainville 1816
1816
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