Zootaxa 4411 (1): 001–082 ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/ Monograph ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2018 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4411.1 http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:255EE06E-3171-41F3-BB3D-E7D29537A292 ZOOTAXA 4411 An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea WILLIAM T. WHITE1,2,4 & ALFRED KO’OU3 1CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere, GPO Box 1538, Hobart, TAS, 7001, AUSTRALIA 2CSIRO National Research Collections Australia-Australian National Fish Collection, GPO Box 1538, Hobart, TAS, 7001, AUSTRA- LIA 3Department of Biological Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea, P.O. Box 320, University P.O., National Capital District, PAPUA NEW GUINEA 4Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected] Magnolia Press Auckland, New Zealand Accepted by M.R. de Carvalho: 16 Feb. 2018; published: 19 Apr. 2018 WILLIAM T. WHITE & ALFRED KO’OU An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea (Zootaxa 4411) 82 pp.; 30 cm. 19 Apr. 2018 ISBN 978-1-77670-358-6 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-77670-359-3 (Online edition) FIRST PUBLISHED IN 2018 BY Magnolia Press P.O. Box 41-383 Auckland 1346 New Zealand e-mail: [email protected] http://www.mapress.com/j/zt © 2018 Magnolia Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored, transmitted or disseminated, in any form, or by any means, without prior written permission from the publisher, to whom all requests to reproduce copyright material should be directed in writing. This authorization does not extend to any other kind of copying, by any means, in any form, and for any purpose other than private research use. ISSN 1175-5326 (Print edition) ISSN 1175-5334 (Online edition) 2 · Zootaxa 4411 (1) © 2018 Magnolia Press WHITE & KO'OU Table of contents Abstract . 7 Introduction . 7 Methods . 9 Results . 10 Order Hexanchiformes . 11 Family Hexanchidae Gray, 1851 . 11 Genus Hexanchus Rafinesque, 1810a . 11 Hexanchus griseus (Bonnaterre, 1788) . 11 Order Squaliformes . 11 Family Squalidae Blainville, 1816 . 11 Genus Squalus Linnaeus, 1758 . 11 Squalus crassispinus Last, Edmunds & Yearsley, 2007 . 11 Squalus cf. edmundsi . 12 Squalus montalbani Whitley, 1931 . 12 Family Centrophoridae Bleeker, 1859 . 12 Genus Centrophorus Müller & Henle, 1837a . 12 Centrophorus atromarginatus Garman, 1913 . 12 Centrophorus granulosus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) . 13 Centrophorus longipinnis White, Ebert & Naylor, 2017 . 13 Centrophorus moluccensis Bleeker, 1860 . 13 Genus Deania Jordon & Snyder, 1902 . 14 Deania quadrispinosa (McCulloch, 1915) . 14 Family Etmopteridae Fowler, 1934 . 14 Genus Etmopterus Rafinesque, 1810a . 14 Etmopterus evansi Last, Burgess & Séret, 2002 . 14 Etmopterus fusus Last, Burgess & Séret, 2002 . 14 Etmopterus samadiae White, Ebert, Mana & Corrigan, 2017c . 15 Family Dalatiidae Gray, 1851 . 15 Genus Isistius Gill, 1865 . 15 Isistius brasiliensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) . 15 Order Orectolobiformes. 16 Family Orectolobidae Gill, 1896 . 16 Genus Eucrossorhinus Regan, 1908 . 16 Eucrossorhinus dasypogon (Bleeker 1867) . 16 Genus Orectolobus Bonaparte, 1834. 16 Orectolobus ornatus (De Vis, 1883) . 16 Orectolobus wardi Whitley, 1939a . 17 Orectolobus sp. 1 (cf. leptolineatus) . 17 Family Hemiscylliidae Gill, 1862 . 17 Genus Chiloscyllium Müller & Henle, 1837a . 17 Chiloscyllium plagiosum (Anonymous [Bennett], 1830) . 17 Chiloscyllium punctatum Müller & Henle, 1838b . 18 Hemiscyllium hallstromi Whitley, 1967 . 19 Hemiscyllium.