Gogolia filewoodi Compagno, 1973

White, William T. & Ko’Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, Zootaxa 4411 (1), pp. 1-82 : 28

Gogolia filewoodi Compagno, 1973

Sailback Houndshark

Gogolia filewoodi Compagno, 1973: 394 , figs 1–7. Holotype: AMS I. 16858-001. Type locality: Astrolabe Bay , Papua New Guinea.

Local synonymy: Gogolia filewoodi Compagno, 1973: 383 , Figs 1 –7 (Astrolabe Bay)— Compagno, 1984: 389 (Astrolabe Bay); Kailola, 1987: 13 (Astrolabe Bay); Compagno & Niem, 1998b: 1302; Ebert et al., 2013: 394, pl. 54 (PNG); Fricke et al., 2014: 13 (Madang Province); White et al., 2018: 116, figs (PNG).

PNG voucher material: (2 spec.) AMS I 16858 - 001 (holotype), pregnant female 722 mm TL, 1 mile north of Gogol River mouth, Astrolabe Bay , Madang Province, 5°18’ S, 145°50’ E, 73 m depth, 18 Jul. 1970; CAS 27588 (paratype), late-term embryo 224 mm TL; KFRS E.414 (paratype), late-term embryo, 224 mm TL, taken from holotype .

Remarks: First recorded from PNG by Compagno 1973 based on a pregnant female (and two late-term embryos) collected in 1970 by L.W. Filewood; no further specimens have been encountered since this date. The CAS paratype, one of the two late-term embryos, is listed as ‘not found’ by Eschmeyer et al. (2017). Endemic to PNG.

Figures

FIGURE 1. The current location of the KFRS collection in the biological sciences area of the University of PNG.