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Lamnidae

Description

LAMNIDAE

Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque 1810

Gulf of Suez: ¯

Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Randall & Levy 1976), Jordan (Khalaf 2004).

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Gohar & Mazhar 1964, as Isurus glaucus), Saudi Arabia (Spaet & Berumen 2015). General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and temperate seas.

Notes

Published as part of Golani, Daniel & Fricke, Ronald, 2018, Checklist of the Red Sea Fishes with delineation of the Gulf of Suez, Gulf of Aqaba, endemism and Lessepsian migrants, pp. 1-215 in Zootaxa 4509 (1) on page 8, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Lamniformes
Family
Lamnidae
Taxon rank
family

References

  • Randall, J. E. & Levy, M. F. (1976) A near-fatal attack by a mako in the northern Red Sea. Israel Journal of Zoology, 25, 61 - 70.
  • Khalaf, M. A (2004) Fish fauna of the Jordanian coast, Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea. JKAU Marine Science, 15, 23 - 50. https: // doi. org / 10.4197 / mar. 15 - 1.2
  • Gohar, H. A. F. & Mazhar, F. M. M. (1964) The elasmobranchs of the north-western Red Sea. Publications of the Marine Biological Station Al-Ghardaqa, 13, 3 - 144, pls. 1 - 16, 2 maps.
  • Spaet, J. L. Y. & Berumen, M. L. (2015) Fish market surveys indicate unsustainable elasmobranch fisheries in the Saudi Arabian Red Sea. Fisheries Research, 161, 356 - 364. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. fishres. 2014.08.022