Isurus paucus Guitart, 1966

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 : 44-45

Isurus paucus Guitart, 1966

Longfin Mako Shark

Isurus paucus Guitart, 1966: 3 , figs. 1, 2A, 3A, 3C. Syntypes: possibly in the Instituto de Biologia or Instituto de Oceanologia , Cuba, collected in the Caribbean near Cuba. No type known according to Compagno (2001). Type locality: unknown.

Local synonymy: (?) Isurus paucus: Compagno, 1999: 118 ; Compagno, 2001: 115, fig. 75; Heemstra & Heemstra, 2004: 71; Compagno et al., 2005: 183, fig., pl. 30; Ebert et al., 2013 a: 231, fig., pl. 28; Ebert & Dando, 2014: 51, fig.; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 145; Compagno, 2016: 1249.

South Africa voucher material: Jaws from the personal collection of a fisher from the south coast (WC) examined by D.A. Ebert and L.J. V. Compagno (unpubl. data) is the only material.

South African distribution:? Cape Agulhas (WC).

Remarks: Although there are no confirmed records, this species is provisionally included as occurring in South African waters based on a set of jaws examined by D.A. Ebert and L.J.V. Compagno (unpubl. data) from a large mako shark caught off Cape Agulhas by a commercial fisher. A poorly known and uncommon species, it is frequently misidentified as I. oxyrinchus . This species is of little commercial value as the flesh is soft and of poor quality.

Conservation status: EN (2019).