Lamnidae

Moore, Alec B. M., Ward, Robert D. & Peirce, Richard, 2012, Sharks of the Persian (Arabian) Gulf: a first annotated checklist (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii), Zootaxa 3167, pp. 1-16 : 12

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.279779
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5696808
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CA87F1-FFFC-FF9E-B1B1-79DCC410ED13
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Lamnidae
status

Treatment

Lamnidae View in CoL (Mackerel sharks)

No confirmed Gulf records. A Kuwait record ( Khalaf 1987) of the great white shark Carcharodon carcharias ( Linnaeus, 1758) was a misidentification of Carcharias taurus ( Moore et al. 2007) . Tourenq et al. (2008) note an unsubstantiated Carcharodon carcharias record from the United Arab Emirates and Musandam area, and a skin specimen registered as C. carcharias from nearby Oman (BMNH 1891.2.9.41) has apparently been lost (Patrick Campbell, BMNH, pers. comm.). Randall (1986) noted the shortfin mako Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque, 1810 as not yet reported from the Gulf and our data support this.