Carcharhinus leucas
Creators
Description
Carcharhinus leucas (Valenciennes, 1839)
Bull Shark
Carcharias (Prionodon) leucas Valenciennes in Müller & Henle, 1839: 42. Syntypes (4): only 2 stuffed syntypes still in existence; MNHN A-9650, MNHN A-9652. Type locality: Antilles, Western Atlantic.
Local synonymy: Carcharhinus leucas— Filewood, 1973: 5 (PNG); Haines, 1979a: 6 (Purari Delta); Haines, 1979b: 94 (Purari Delta); Compagno, 1984: 479 (New Guinea); Kailola, 1987: 16 (Fly River to Yule Island); Taniuchi & Shimizu, 1991: 5 (Sepik River); Kan & Taniuchi, 1991: 3 (near Angoram, Sepik River); White et al., 2018: 146, figs (PNG).
PNG voucher material: (2 spec.) CSIRO C 1800 (teeth only), Port Moresby, 25 Sep. 1948; FUMT-P 10850, juvenile male 852 mm TL, Magendo 1, Sepik River, 5 Sep. 1989.
Remarks: First recorded from PNG by Filewood (1973), but first specimen recorded was in 1948 from Port Moresby (CSIRO C 1800).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MNHN
- Family
- Carcharhinidae
- Genus
- Carcharhinus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Carcharhiniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Valenciennes
- Species
- leucas
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Carcharhinus leucas (Valenciennes, 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.
- Haines, A. J. (1979 a) An ecological survey of fish of the Lower Purari River system, Papua New Guinea. Purari River (Wabo) hydroelectric scheme. Environmental Studies Volume 6. Office of Environment and Conservation, Waigani, and Department of Minerals and Energy, Konedobu, 99 pp.
- Haines, A. J. (1979 b) The subsistence fishery of the Purari Delta. Science in New Guinea, 6 (2), 80 - 104.
- Compagno, L. J. V. (1984) FAO species catalogue. Volume 4. Sharks of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of shark species known to date. Part 2. Carcharhiniformes. FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) Fisheries Synopsis No. 125. FAO, Rome, pp. 251 ‾ 655.
- 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.
- Ishihara, H., Taniuchi, T. & Shimizu, M. (1991) Sexual dimorphism in number of rostral teeth in the sawfish, Pristis microdon collected from Australia and Papua New Guinea. The University Museum, the University of Tokyo, Nature and Culture, 3, 83 - 89.
- Kan, T. T. & Taniuchi, T. (1991) Occurrence of the bull shark, Carcharhinus leucas, in the Sepik river, Papua New Guinea. Science in New Guinea, 17 (1), 3 - 6
- 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