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Carcharhinus amboinensis

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Carcharhinus amboinensis (Müller & Henle, 1839)

Pigeye Shark

Carcharias (Prionodon) amboinensis Müller & Henle, 1839: 40, pl. 19 (teeth). Holotype: RMNH D2582 (skin). Type locality: Ambon Island, Indonesia.

Local synonymy: Carcharhinus amboinensis— Filewood, 1973: 5 (PNG); Kailola, 1987: 16 (Binaturi River; Bougainville; Ramu River mouth; Yule Island; Bootless Bay; Port Moresby); Last & Stevens, 2009: 253 (PNG and Bougainville); White et al., 2018: 134, figs (PNG).

PNG voucher material: (5 spec.) KFRS E.019, Ramu River mouth, 18 Jul. 1965; KFRS E.031, Kairuku, Yule Island, 20 Oct. 1964; KFRS E.179, male, near McDhui wreck, Port Moresby, 26 Apr. 1965; KFRS E.368, Numa Numa, Bougainville, Aug. 1969; KFRS E.622, female 910 mm TL, Freshwater Bay, Gulf of Papua, 8°5’38” S, 145°50’37” E, 13–14 m depth, 30 Aug. 2015.

Remarks: First recorded by Filewood (1973) with dried jaws from his collection collected in the mid-1960s. Recorded in the coastal and trawl fisheries catches in southern PNG (Daru to Milne Bay).

Notes

Published as part of White, William T. & Ko'Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, pp. 1-82 in Zootaxa 4411 (1) on pages 32-33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1221878

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/735C87F18A49FF8E9BF6F9915E8F885C

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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/1221878 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/735C87F18A49FF8E9BF6F9915E8F885C (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/143619236 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/30231/taxon/735C87F18A49FF8E9BF6F9915E8F885C.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
RMNH
Family
Carcharhinidae
Genus
Carcharhinus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Carcharhiniformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Muller & Henle
Species
amboinensis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Carcharhinus amboinensis (Muller, 1839) sec. White & Ko'Ou, 2018

References

  • Filewood, L. W. C. (1973) Guide to elasmobranch key, with notes on collection of data. Internal Department of Primary Industries, Fisheries report, Port Moresby, 18 pp.
  • Kailola, P. J. (1987) The fishes of Papua New Guinea. A revised and annotated checklist. Volume One: Myxinidae to Synbranchidae. Research Bulletin No. 41. Department of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Port Moresby, 194 pp.
  • Finucci, B., White, W. T., Kemper, J. & Naylor, G. J. P. (2018) Redescription of Chimaera ogilbyi (Chimaeriformes; Chimaeridae) from the Indo-Australian region. Zootaxa, 4375, 191 - 210. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4375.2.2