Published April 12, 2019
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Triaenodon obesus Ruppell
Description
Triaenodon obesus (Rüppell)
(Fig. 4A)
A tissue sample was taken from a frozen specimen of Triaenodon obesus (SL-119) that had been collected earlier in 2018 from the Negombo fish market in Negombo in the Western Province. This specimen has now been deposited in the BRT Ichthyology Collection (BRT-I 0031). This specimen is morphologically consistent with T. obesus. It clustered most closely with our reference specimen of this species (KA-126; JQ518656) from Indonesian Borneo included in the Neighbor-Joining analysis. It differed from this specimen in NADH2 sequence by 7 bp.
This is the name currently applied to this species in Sri Lanka (e.g., De Silva 1977, 1984 –1985, 2006, 2015; De Bruin et al. 1995; Joseph 1999).
Notes
Published as part of Fernando, Daniel, Bown, Rosalind M. K., Tanna, Akshay, Gobiraj, Ramajeyam, Ralicki, Hannah, Jockusch, Elizabeth L., Ebert, David A., Jensen, Kirsten & Caira, Janine N., 2019, New insights into the identities of the elasmobranch fauna of Sri Lanka, pp. 201-238 in Zootaxa 4585 (2) on page 223, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4585.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2637236
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Ruppell
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Carcharhiniformes
- Family
- Carcharhinidae
- Genus
- Triaenodon
- Species
- obesus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Triaenodon obesus (Ruppell, 1835) sec. Fernando, Bown, Tanna, Gobiraj, Ralicki, Jockusch, Ebert, Jensen & Caira, 2019
References
- 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.