Iago garricki Fourmanoir & Rivaton, 1979

White, William T. & Ko’Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, Zootaxa 4411 (1), pp. 1-82 : 29

Iago garricki Fourmanoir & Rivaton, 1979

Longnose Houndshark

Iago garricki Fourmanoir & Rivaton, 1979: 434 , Fig. 2 . Holotype: MNHN 1978-0694 . Type locality: northwest of Efate , Vanuatu.

Local synonymy: White et al., 2018: 120, figs (PNG).

PNG voucher material: (1 spec.) NTUM 11494 , juvenile female 223 mm TL, northwest of Kavieng , New Ireland, 2°28’S, 150°44’ E, 333–420 m depth, 24 Apr. 2014.

Remarks: First record of this genus and species from PNG. Previously known from Vanuatu, northern Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines.

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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.