Loxodon macrorhinus (Müller & Henle, 1839 )

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 : 66

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scientific name	Loxodon macrorhinus (Müller & Henle, 1839 )
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Loxodon macrorhinus (Müller & Henle, 1839) View in CoL View at ENA

Sliteye Shark

Loxodon macrorhinus View in CoL M̹ller & Henle, 1839: 61, pl. 25. Holotype: ZMB 4479 View Materials . Type locality: unknown (probably Indian Ocean).

Local synonymy: Loxodon macrorhinus: Bass et al., 1975b: 37 View in CoL , fig. 22; Compagno, 1984b: 514, fig.; Bass et al., 1986: 80, fig. 9.25; Compagno, 1988a: 16; Compagno et al., 1989: 68, pl.; Compagno, 1999: 120; Compagno et al., 2005: 314, fig., pl. 60; Ebert et al., 2013 a: 492, fig., pl. 73; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 146; Weigmann, 2016: 861.

South Africa voucher material: SAIAB 6178, SAIAB 6202, SAIAB 6211.

South African distribution: Northern KZN.

Remarks:A small coastal tropical species with a wide Indo-West Pacific range but occurring locally only in northern KZN.

Conservation status: LC (2003).

Genus Negaprion Whitley, 1940

Lemon Sharks

Negaprion Whitley, 1940: 111 . Type species: Aprionodon acutidens queenslandicus Whitley, 1939 b , by original designation, a junior synonym of Negaprion acutidens (R̹ppell, 1837).