Longfin Mako Shark
Isurus paucus Guitart, 1966: 3, figs. 1, 2A, 3A, 3C. Syntypes: possibly in the Instituto de Biologia or Instituto de Oceanologia, Cuba, collected in the Caribbean near Cuba. No type known according to Compagno (2001). Type locality: unknown.
Local synonymy: (?) Isurus paucus: Compagno, 1999: 118; Compagno, 2001: 115, fig. 75; Heemstra & Heemstra, 2004: 71; Compagno et al., 2005: 183, fig., pl. 30; Ebert et al., 2013a: 231, fig., pl. 28; Ebert & Dando, 2014: 51, fig.; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 145; Compagno, 2016: 1249.
South Africa voucher material: Jaws from the personal collection of a fisher from the south coast (WC) examined by D.A. Ebert and L.J. V. Compagno (unpubl. data) is the only material.
South African distribution:? Cape Agulhas (WC).
Remarks: Although there are no confirmed records, this species is provisionally included as occurring in South African waters based on a set of jaws examined by D.A. Ebert and L.J.V. Compagno (unpubl. data) from a large mako shark caught off Cape Agulhas by a commercial fisher. A poorly known and uncommon species, it is frequently misidentified as I. oxyrinchus. This species is of little commercial value as the flesh is soft and of poor quality.
Conservation status: EN (2019).
Genus Lamna Cuvier, 1816
Porbeagle Sharks
Lamna Cuvier, 1816: 126. Type species: Squalus cornubicus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 by monotypy, equals S. cornubicus Gmelin, 1789: 1497, and a junior synonym of S. nasus Bonnaterre, 1788.
Genus Lamna Cuvier, 1816
Porbeagle Sharks
Lamna Cuvier, 1816: 126. Type species: Squalus cornubicus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 by monotypy, equals S. cornubicus Gmelin, 1789: 1497, and a junior synonym of S. nasus Bonnaterre, 1788.