Carcharhinus limbatus Müller & Henle 1839
Description
Carcharhinus cf. limbatus
(Figs. 4A, 14 E–H)
Two specimens of blacktip sharks were examined, one each from Point Pedro's Munai (SL-38) and Kottadi (SL-52) markets in the Northern Province. Following Naylor et al. (2012a), we refer to this species as Carcharhinus cf. limbatus in recognition of the fact that, despite their overall morphological similarity, the Indian and Pacific Oceandwelling form is molecularly distinct from the Atlantic-dwelling form of Carcharhinus limbatus (Müller & Henle). The two specimens from Sri Lanka differed from one another by 4 bp and from our reference sequence of C. cf. limbatus from Australia (AU-26; JQ518616) by 3 bp.
This species is routinely referred to in Sri Lanka as C. limbatus (e.g., De Silva 1977, 1984 –1985, 2006, 2015; De Bruin et al. 1995; Joseph 1999). Use of the C. cf. limbatus designation for the form in Sri Lanka would serve as a reminder of the distinct nature of this form relative to the Atlantic form.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Carcharhinidae
- Genus
- Carcharhinus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Carcharhiniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Müller & Henle
- Species
- limbatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Carcharhinus limbatus Müller, 1839 sec. Fernando, Bown, Tanna, Gobiraj, Ralicki, Jockusch, Ebert, Jensen & Caira, 2019
References
- Naylor, G. J. P., Caira, J. N., Jensen, K., Rosana, K. A. M., White, W. T. & Last, P. R. (2012 a) A DNA sequence-based approach to the identification of shark and ray species and its implications for global elasmobranch diversity and parasitology. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 367, 1 - 262.
- De Silva, R. I. (1977) A guide to some sharks of Sri Lanka. Loris, 14, 225 - 232.
- De Silva, R. I. (1984 - 1985) The sharks of Sri Lanka. A key to the different species and a preliminary checklist. Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Sciences), 17 - 18, 56 - 66.
- De Bruin, G. H. P., Russell, B. C. & Bogusch, A. (1995) FAO Species Identification Field Guide for Fisheries Purposes. The Marine Fishery Resources of Sri Lanka. FAO, Rome, Italy, 400 pp.
- Joseph, L. (1999) Management of shark fisheries in Sri Lanka. In: Shotton, R. (Ed.), Case Studies of the Management of Elasmobranch Fisheries. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper. No. 3780, Rome, Italy, pp. 339 - 366.