- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classElasmobranchii
- ›orderCarcharhiniformes
- ›familyTriakidae
- ›genusGogolia
Sailback Houndshark
Gogolia filewoodi Compagno, 1973
Also calledCação-vela (por) · Segelflossen-Glatthai (deu) · psohlav novoguinejský (ces) · Гоголия (rus) · セビロドチザメ (jpn)
First described in: Compagno, Leonard J. V. 1973. Gogolia filewoodi, a new genus and species of shark from New Guinea (Carcharhiniformes: Triakidae), with a redefinition of the family Triakidae and a key to triakid genera. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4 39(19): 383-410.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
Remarks: First recorded from PNG by Compagno 1973 based on a pregnant female (and two late-term embryos) collected in 1970 by L. W. Filewood; no further specimens have been encountered since this date. The CAS paratype, one of the two late-term embryos, is listed as ‘ not found’ by Eschmeyer et al. (2017). Endemic to PNG.
An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea
materials_examined
PNG voucher material: (2 spec.) AMS I 16858 - 001 (holotype), pregnant female 722 mm TL, 1 mile north of Gogol River mouth, Astrolabe Bay, Madang Province, 5 ° 18 ’ S, 145 ° 50 ’ E, 73 m depth, 18 Jul. 1970; CAS 27588 (paratype), late-term embryo 224 mm TL; KFRS E. 414 (paratype), late-term embryo, 224 mm TL, taken from holotype.
An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea
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Every page naming Gogolia filewoodi in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2418391.