Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque, 1810a

Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, Zootaxa 4947 (1), pp. 1-127 : 44

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scientific name	Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque, 1810a
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Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque, 1810a View in CoL View at ENA

Shortfin Mako Shark

Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque, 1810a: 12 View in CoL , pl. 13, fig. 1. Also Rafinesque, 1810b: 45. Holotype unknown. Type locality: Sicily, Mediterranean Sea.

Local synonymy: Lamna glauca View in CoL : M̹ller & Henle, 1839: 69, pl. 29; G̹nther, 1870: 391 (Cape seas); Gilchrist, 1902 164; Thompson, 1914: 145. Isurus glaucus View in CoL : M̹ller & Henle, 1839: 69, pl. 29; Fowler, 1941: 104 (Cape of Good Hope); Barnard, 1947: 10, fig. 1, pl. 2; Smith, 1949a: 50, pl. 1; Smith, 1957d: 94, fig. 1; D’Aubrey, 1964a: 15, pl. 3. Isurus glauca: Barnard, 1925: 33 View in CoL (Cape seas; not fig. 6, pl. 1, = Lamna nasus View in CoL ). Isurus bideni: Phillipps, 1932: 227 View in CoL , fig. 2 (original description, South Africa); Fowler, 1941: 104; Barnard, 1948: 342. Isurus oxyrinchus: Bigelow & Schroeder, 1948b: 124 View in CoL ; Smith, 1957d: 94, fig. 1; Smith, 1958a: 134, fig. 2; Smith, 1965: 511, fig. 28a; Bass et al., 1975c: 27, figs. 13–14, pl. 2; Compagno, 1984a: 242, fig.; Bass, 1986: 99, fig. 14.2, pl. 1; Cliff & Wilson, 1986: 11; Compagno et al., 1989: 44, pl.; Compagno et al., 1991: 74; Compagno, 1999: 118; Heemstra & Heemstra, 2004: 71; Compagno et al., 2005: 182, fig., pl. 30; Ebert et al., 2013 a: 230, fig., pl. 28; Foulis & Groeneveld, 2013: 100; Mann, 2013: 100; NPOA, 2013: 49; Ebert & Dando, 2014: 49, fig.; da Silva et al., 2015: 247; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 145; Compagno, 2016: 1245; Weigmann, 2016: 850. Isurus tigris: Smith, 1957d: 94 View in CoL , fig. 1. Isurus tigris africanus: Smith, 1957d: 96 View in CoL , fig. 1, pl. 1 (original description of subspecies); Smith, 1958a: 134. Isurus africanus: Smith, 1958a: 134 View in CoL ; Smith, 1965: 565, pl. 108.

South Africa voucher material: SAIAB 426, SAIAB 6014 [former ORI 2418], SAIAB 6916 [former ORI 92], SAIAB 6917 [former ORI 97], SAIAB 6918 [former ORI 101], SAIAB 6919 [former ORI 272], SAIAB 6920 [former ORI 307], SAIAB 6921 [former ORI 329], SAIAB 6922 [former ORI 449], SAIAB 6923 [former ORI 240], SAIAB 12828, SAIAB 12999, SAIAB 25194, SAIAB 75571, SAIAB 200724, SAIAB 200726, SAIAB 200727, SAIAB 202983, SAIAB 203562.

South African distribution: Occurs along the entire coast from the Orange River (NC) to the KZN border with Mozambique.

Remarks: A common offshore, pelagic species in South African waters.

Conservation status: EN (2019).