Odontaspididae

Biscoito, Manuel, Ribeiro, Cláudia & Freitas, Mafalda, 2018, Annotated checklist of the fishes of the archipelago of Madeira (NE Atlantic): I-Chondrichthyes, Zootaxa 4429 (3), pp. 459-494 : 464-465

Family Odontaspididae

* Odontaspis ferox (Risso, 1810) —Tubarão-da-areia; Smalltooth sand tiger

Maul 1955: 1 (as Carcharias ferox )

Springer 1973b: 11 | Compagno 1984a: 219–221; 2001:64–66 | Quéro 1984b: 80 | Springer 1990: 81–82 | Lloris et al. 1991: 234 | Sanches 1986: 52 | Carneiro et al. 2014: 10.

Distribution in Macaronesia. Madeira, Azores ( Santos et al. 1997; Porteiro et al. 2010), Canary Islands ( Brito et al. 2002; Brito Hernández & Sancho Rafel 2003) and Cape Verde ( Reiner 1996, 2005; Menezes et al. 2004).

Remarks. there are two specimens in the MMF collection, a skin (MMF 2478) and a mounted specimen on exhibition (MMF 2678), both obtained in 1941. Maul (1948) refers only the presence of the genus Odontaspis , as O. noronhai was already in the collection, but not yet described, and conspired it very rare.

* ▲ Odontaspis noronhai ( Maul, 1955) —No common name in Madeira; Bigeye sand tiger shark ( Fig. 3 )

Maul 1955: 3 as Carcharias noronhai

Springer 1973b: 11 | Cadenat & Blache 1981: 131–132 | Compagno 1984a 221–222 | Quéro 1984b: 81 | Springer 1990: 82 | Lloris et al. 1991: 204 | Sanches 1986: 53 | Carneiro et al. 2014: 10

Distribution in Macaronesia. recorded only from Madeira.

Remarks. Madeira is type locality. The holotype is a mounted female specimen, caught off Câmara de Lobos, Madeira, between 600–1600 meters of depth in 13/04/1941 (MMF 2691). A formalin preserved specimen (MMF 3376) is also present in MMF collection, but collection details are unknown. Maul (1948) states the genus Odontaspis as very rare.

Figures

FIGURE 3. Odontaspis noronhai, Holotype (MMF 2691). Mounted specimen on permanent exhibition at MMF.