Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque, 1810a

Shortfin Mako

Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque, 1810a: 12, pl. 13, fig. 1. Also Rafinesque, 1810b: 45. Holotype unknown. Type locality: Sicily, Mediterranean Sea.

Local synonymy: Isurus oxyrinchus— Kailola, 1987: 3 (Kavieng); White et al., 2018: 88, figs (PNG). PNG voucher material: None.

Remarks: Caught as bycatch in the pelagic longline fisheries in PNG; verified by photographs, with accompanying muscle and vertebral samples, from fisheries observers. A dried jaw previously identified as I. oxyrinchus (AKPM 4) was re-identified as Carcharhinus falciformis .