Carcharodon carcharias

Mollen, Frederik H., Wintner, Sabine P., Iglésias, Samuel P., Van, Sean R. & Jagt, John W. M., 2012, Comparative morphology of rostral cartilages in extant mackerel sharks (Chondrichthyes, Lamniformes, Lamnidae) using CT scanning, Zootaxa 3340, pp. 29-43 : 31

Carcharodon carcharias

Fresh material: 1 specimen, ERB 0 932 (= KZNSB –UMT 07015), female, 2120 mm TL, 26 November 2007, protective gill nets off Umtentweni, South Africa, southwest Indian Ocean.

Additional material: one set of transverse views through rostrum based on CT scans (unpublished data, courtesy of K. Shimada) of a female, FMNH 38335, c. 2714 mm TL (based on crown height of first anterior teeth, following the method described by Shimada 2003), off southern Florida, USA, Atlantic Ocean, and 2 dried chondrocrania, IRScNB 1385γ, no data, Mediterranean; KZNSB unlabelled, female, c. 3740 mm TL (based on skeleton), date unknown, protective gill nets off KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, southwest Indian Ocean.

Additional illustrations: Haswell (1884, pl. 1, figs. 1–2), Parker [1887, pl. 4, figs. 1, 3; pl. 5, unnumbered fig. (upper part of plate only); non pl. 8, figs. 24–25, misidentified by the author, see Francis (1996) and Mollet et al. (2002)], Compagno (1990, figs. 3G, 5J, 6J, 7J), Gottfried et al. (1996, fig. 5B), Wroe et al. (2008, fig. 1A–B), and Shimada et al. (2009, fig. 2D).