Carcharhinus cautus (Whitley, 1945)

White, William T. & Ko’Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, Zootaxa 4411 (1), pp. 1-82 : 33

Carcharhinus cautus (Whitley, 1945)

Nervous Shark

Galeolamna greyi cauta Whitley, 1945: 2 , Fig. 2 . Holotype AMS IB.1622 (teeth and skin). Type locality: Shark Bay , Western Australia.

Local synonymy: Carcharhinus melanopterus (in part)— Filewood, 1973: 5 (PNG); Carcharhinus cautus— Kailola, 1987: 16 ( Port Romilly ; Sigabadu); Last & Stevens, 2009: 257 ( PNG) ; White et al., 2018: 138, figs (PNG).

PNG voucher material: (2 spec.) KFRS E.009A (dried jaws), Hall Sound, Central Province; KFRS E.011, Kairuku area, Yule Island , Aug. 1964 .

Remarks: A set of dried jaws deposited in the KFRS collection confirmed as this species was originally identified as Carcharhinus melanopterus , suggesting that the two species were confused at this time. Not recorded during recent surveys.

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FIGURE 2. Number of museum specimen lots from PNG waters per 5-yearly intervals between 1820 and the present. All museum collections combined; grey bars dnote existing lots; red bars denote lost or destroyed lots.