Glyphis glyphis glyphis Muller & Henle 1839
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Glyphis glyphis Müller & Henle, 1839
Speartooth Shark
Carcharias (Prionodon) glyphis Müller & Henle, 1839: 40, Pl. 14. Holotype: ZMB 5265 (stuffed). Type locality: probably Indian Ocean; Roberts (2007) suggested type locality may be the South China Sea.
Local synonymy: Carcharhinus glyphis— Filewood, 1973: 5 (PNG); Haines, 1979a: 11 (Purari Delta); Haines, 1979b: 94 (Purari Delta). Glyphis glyphis— Compagno, 1984: 509 (New Guinea); Kailola, 1987: 17 (PNG); Compagno et al., 2008: 213 (Port Romilly; Alligator Island, Fly River); Last & Stevens, 2009: 277 (PNG); Compagno et al., 2010: 41 (Port Romilly; Alligator Island, Fly River); Ebert et al., 2013: 482, pl. 69 (PNG); White et al., 2015a: 1, figs 2, 3 and 5 (Katatai); White et al., 2018: 166, figs (PNG). Glyphis cf glyphis— Roberts, 2007: 282 (New Guinea).
PNG voucher material: (3 spec.) CSIRO H 7670-01 (dried jaws), pregnant female ~ 2370–2600 mm TL, Katatai, Daru, Western Province, 9°01’15” S, 143°20’31” E, 23 Oct. 2014; KFRS E.218 (dried jaws), juvenile female ~ 1600–1800 mm TL, Port Romilly, Gulf Province, 7°33’ S, 144°50’ E, 12 Mar. 1966; KFRS E.405B (dried jaws), ~ 1600–1800 mm TL, Alligator Island, 200 miles upstream in Fly River, 7°19’ S, 141°11’ E, Feb. 1970. In Compagno et al. (2008), the KFRS dried jaws above were listed as LWF-E218 and LWF-E405B; loaned to LJV Compagno, possibly still in South African Museum in Cape Town.
Remarks: First recorded from PNG by Filewood (1973) as Carcharhinus glyphis (see comments in G. garricki remarks above). Recently recorded by White et al. (2015) from coastal fisheries catches in Western Province where it is caught occasionally.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CSIRO , KFRS
- Event date
- 1966-03-12 , 2014-10-23
- Verbatim event date
- 1966-03-12 , 2014-10-23
- Scientific name authorship
- glyphis Muller & Henle
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Carcharhiniformes
- Family
- Carcharhinidae
- Genus
- Glyphis
- Species
- glyphis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Glyphis glyphis Muller, 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.
- Compagno, L. J. V., White, W. T. & Cavanagh, R. D. (2010) Glyphis fowlerae sp. nov., a new species of river shark (Carcharhiniformes; Carcharhinidae) from northeastern Borneo. In: Last, P. R., White, W. T. & Pogonoski, J. J. (Eds.), Descriptions of New Sharks and Rays from Borneo. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper 0 32. CSIRO, Hobart, Tasmania, pp. 29 - 44.
- Ebert, D. A., Fowler, S. Compagno, L. (2013) Sharks of the World: a fully illustrated guide. Wild Nature Press, Plymouth, 528 pp.
- 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