Carcharhinus sorrah (Valenciennes, 1839)

White, William T. & Ko’Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, Zootaxa 4411 (1), pp. 1-82 : 37

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5983146
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scientific name	Carcharhinus sorrah (Valenciennes, 1839)
status

Treatment

Spot-tail Shark

Carcharias (Prionodon) sorrah Valenciennes in Müller & Henle, 1839: 45 , pl. 16. Lectotype: RMNH 4294 View Materials , Type locality: Java, Indonesia.

Local synonymy: Carcharhinus spallanzani— Filewood, 1973: 7 (PNG). Carcharhinus sorrah — White et al., 2018: 160, figs (PNG).

PNG voucher material: (9 spec.) KFRS E.003A (dried jaws) , KFRS E.003B (dried jaws), Hall Sound, Yule Island , Central Province, 11 Nov. 1963 ; KFRS E.004 (dried jaws), north of Yule Island , Central Province, 11 Jun. 1963 ; KFRS E.343A-C (3 spec.), two females 293 and 300 mm TL, one juvenile male 300 mm TL, KFRS E.344A- B (2 spec.), females 327 and 340 mm TL, Kairuku, Yule Island , Central Province, 2 Oct. 1968 ; KFRS E.367 (dried jaws), no collection data.

Remarks: First recorded from PNG by Filewood (1973) as C. spallanzani (= sorrah , isobel, etc) and listed as “very common”. Caught by coastal fisheries.