Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records
Andréfouët, Serge
Chen, Wei-Jen
Kinch, Jeff
Mana, Ralph
Russell, Barry C.
Tully, Dean
White, William T.
Zootaxa
2019
2019-04-23
4588
1
1
360
R3ND
(Muller & Henle 1839)
Muller & Henle
1839
[151,722,1231,1256]
Elasmobranchii
Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinus
Animalia
Carcharhiniformes
39
40
Chordata
species
falciformis
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on confirmed records from an observer program on shark longline vessels in May and June 2014(NFA and CSIRO, unpublished data); tissue samples and vertebrae retained. Mostabundant shark species caught in longline fishery ( W. White). A set of jaws collected from Cape Saint Georgein 1965 (KFRS E046) recently confirmed as this species ( White & Ko'ou 2018: 34).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.—General distribution: Circumglobal in warm temperate and tropical seas. Oceanic and pelagic, most common in offshore waters close to land masses, 0–500 mdepth. Marine.