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New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstractsFIRST RECORD OF AN ODONTASPIDID SHARK IN NEW ZEALAND WATERSJ. A. F. GarrickZoology Department, Victoria University of Wellington, Private Bag, Wellington, New ZealandAbstract Photographs and a preserved head are identified as Odontaspis herbsti Whitley, 1950, an Australian sand shark growing to about 3 m long and similar to the Mediterranean O. ferox Risso, but differing in having a uniform grey body without black markings on the back or sides. No living odontaspidids have previously been reported from New Zealand. Six specimens were trawled in 119-165 m off Table Cape, Hawke Bay, in October-November 1972. Californian and. East Atlantic (Madeira) specimens are treated as conspecific with O. herbsti. It is suggested that O. herbsti is normally an inhabitant of the continental slope, and that the present records are of a few individuals that have strayed on to the shelf.
N.Z. Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 8 (4) : 621-30.
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