Carcharhinus humani White & Weigmann, 2014

Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, Zootaxa 4947 (1), pp. 1-127 : 63

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Carcharhinus humani White & Weigmann, 2014
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Carcharhinus humani White & Weigmann, 2014 View in CoL View at ENA

Human’s Whaler Shark

Carcharhinus humani White & Weigmann, 2014: 72 , figs. 1–6. Holotype: ZMH 26030. Type locality: Off   GoogleMaps Socotra Islands, 12°04'48"S, 53°12'36"W – 12°09'12"S, 53°10'06"W.

Local synonymy: Carcharhinus dussumieri: Smith, 1952e: 22 , fig. 3; Smith, 1952b: 858; Smith, 1965: 42, fig. 8. Carcharhinus menisorrah: Smith, 1961b: 29 . Carcharhinus tjutjot: D’Aubrey, 1964a: 41 , pl. 23; Davies & Joubert, 1966: 15; Davies & Joubert, 1967: 121; Garrick, 1967: 8. Carcharhinus sealei: Bass et al., 1973: 70 , fig. 28, pl.14; Garrick, 1982: 48, fig. 24; Compagno, 1984b: 497, fig.; Bass et al., 1986: 76, fig. 9, pl. 9.16; Compagno, 1988a: 327; Compagno et al., 1989: 68, pl.; Compagno, 1999: 120; Compagno et al., 2005: 305, fig., pl. 60; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 146. Carcharhinus humani: White & Weigmann, 2014: 72 , figs. 1–6; Weigmann, 2016: 856.

South Africa voucher material: Paratype: ANSP 25838 View Materials . Non-types: SAIAB [ex ORI 914 View Materials ] 6117, SAIAB [ex ORI E4 View Materials ] 6218, SAIAB 8021 View Materials , SAIAB 10738 View Materials , SAIAB 13023 View Materials , SAIAB 201701 View Materials .

South African distribution: Port Shepstone and north to the KZN border with Mozambique; south of Port Shepstone there are unconfirmed reports.

Remarks: White & Weigmann (2014) revised the dussumieri - sealei group and described C. humani as a new species. Previous accounts of this species in South African and WIO literature appeared as C. tjutjot and more recently the name C. sealei is used, but neither species occur in the WIO.

Conservation status: DD (2019).

SAIAB

South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity

ORI

Ocean Research Institute

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