Isurus paucus Guitart 1966

• Main Authors: Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P., Kyne, Peter M.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Elasmobranchii; Lamniformes; Lamnidae; Isurus; Isurus paucus; Lamna; Porbeagle
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4687888; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4687888

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). Genus Lamna Cuvier, 1816 Porbeagle Sharks Lamna Cuvier, 1816: 126. Type species: Squalus cornubicus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 by monotypy, equals S. cornubicus Gmelin, 1789: 1497, and a junior synonym of S. nasus Bonnaterre, 1788. Genus Lamna Cuvier, 1816 Porbeagle Sharks Lamna Cuvier, 1816: 126. Type species: Squalus cornubicus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 by monotypy, equals S. cornubicus Gmelin, 1789: 1497, and a junior synonym of S. nasus Bonnaterre, 1788. Published as part of Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 4947 (1) on pages 44-45, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4614567