Species Glyphis garricki Compagno, White & Last, 2008

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• Glyphis garricki Compagno, L.J.V., White, W.T. & Last, P.R. 2008. Glyphis garricki sp. nov., a new species of river shark (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae) from northern Australia and Papua New Guinea, with a redescription of Glyphis glyphis (Müller & Henle, 1839). pp. 203–226 in Last, P.R., White, W.T. & Pogonoski, J.J. (eds). Descriptions of new Australian chondrichthyans. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper No. 022: 1-358 [204, figs. 1-6].

  Type data:

   Holotype CSIRO H.5262–01 ♀, East Alligator River, Kakadu National Park, NT [12°07'S, 132°38'E].
  Paratype(s) CSIRO H.6173–01; CSIRO H.6635–01; SAMA (formerly WAM P 32600–001); WAM P.32598–001; WAM P.32599–001; WAM P.32600–001.

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Glyphis sp. A [in part]. —
  Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 1994. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Canberra : CSIRO Australia 513 pp. 84 pls.
• Glyphis sp. C. —
  Compagno, L.J.V. & Niem, V.H. 1998. Family Carcharhinidae. pp. 1312-1360 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, V.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 2 687-1396 pp. [1318]
  Compagno, L.J.V., Dando, M. & Fowler, S. 2005. A Field Guide to the Sharks of the World. London : Collins 368 pp. [312]

 

Introduction

Glyphis garricki is listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 as Endangered in Australia, and was placed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Red List as Critically Endangered in 2003.

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Ord River, King River, King Sound and Joseph Bonaparte Gulf, WA and South and East Alligator Rivers and Wessel Islands, NT, tropical, New Guinea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL)

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, estuary, freshwater, inshore.

Extra Ecological Information

Shallow inshore areas

 

General References

Berra, T.M. 2010. Clarification of field characters for three freshwater sharks and a photographic atlas of Glyphis glyphis and G. garricki from Adelaide River, Northern Territory, Australia. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 26: 109–114

Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 2009. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Australia 2, 550 pp. [275]

Thorburn, D.C. & Morgan, D.L. 2004. The northern river shark Glyphis sp. C (Carcharhinidae) discovered in Western Australia. Zootaxa 685: 1–8 [1]

Whitty, J.M., Phillips, N.M., Morgan, D.L., Chaplin, J.A., Thorburn, D.C. & Peverell, S.C. 2008. Habitat associations of Freshwater Sawfish (Pristis microdon) and Northern River Shark (Glyphis sp. C): including genetic analysis of P. microdon across northern Australia. Report to the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Australian Government. 75 pp.

 

Common Name References

Compagno, L.J.V., Dando, M. & Fowler, S. 2005. A Field Guide to the Sharks of the World. London : Collins 368 pp. [312] (New Guinea River Shark)

Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 2009. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Australia 2, 550 pp. [275] (Northern River Shark)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
16-Aug-2012		20-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
		08-Aug-2011	ADDED