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TABLE 1 

 Checklist of the Fishes of the Marshall Islands 



Phylum CHORDATA 



Class CHONDRICHTHYS 

 Subclass ELASMOBRANCHII 

 Order HEXANCHIFORMES 

 Family HEXANCHIDAE 



Hexanchus griseus (Bonnaterre, 1788); Randall, 1986. 

 Order LAMNIFORMES 



Family GINGLYMOSTOMATIDAE 

 Nebhus concohr Ruppell, 1837 



Ginglvmostoma ferrugineum Schultz, 1953. 

 Nebrius ferrugineus Randall, 1980a. 

 Family ISURIDAE 



Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758): Schultz, 1953. 

 Family CARCHARHINIDAE 



Carcharhinus albimarginatus (Ruppell, 1837): Schultz, 1953. 

 Carcharhinus amblyrhi;nchos (Bleeker, 1856). 



Carcharhinus menisorrah Schultz, 1953. Garrick (1982) concluded that the true C. menisorrah (Valenciennes in Muller 

 and Henle) is a junior synonym of C. fakiforrnis (Bibron in Muller and Henle). 

 Carcharhinus falcifortnis (Bibron, 1841): Garrick, 1982. 

 Carcharhinus galapagensis (Snodgrass and Heller, 1905): Randall, 1980a. 

 Carc/iarhinus limbatus (Valenciennes, 1841): Randall, 1980a. 

 Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey, 1861). 



Carcharhinus brachyurus Schultz, 1953. Garrick (1982) stated that the specimens Schultz identified as C. brachiiurus 

 are C longimanus. Garrick pointed out that C. maou (Lesson) is an older name for longimanus, but he gave reasons for 

 retaining the long-established longimanus. 

 Carcharhinus melanopterus (Quoy and Gaimard, 1824): Schultz, 1953. 

 Galeocerdo cuuier (Peron and Lesueur, 1822): Schultz, 1953. 

 Negaprion acutidens (Ruppell, 1837). 



Hemigaleops fosteri Schultz and Welander, 1953. Garrick and Schultz in Gilbert (1963) referred Hemigaleops fosteri to 

 the synonymy of Negaprion acutidens. 

 Triaenodon obesus (Riippell, 1837). Schultz (1953) classified this shark in the Triakidae; recent authors place it in 

 Carcharhinidae; however, A. Baranes and G. Dingerkus (MS) plan to reclassify it in the Hemigaleidae. 

 Order RAJIFORMES 



Family DASYATIDIDAE 



Dasyatis sp. Sighted by the senior author at Enewetak. 

 Taeniura melanospilos Bleeker, 1853: Randall, 1980a. 



Taeniura brocki Schultz, 1953. 

 Urogvmnus sp. A specimen collected in the Enewetak Lagoon is under study by the senior author. 

 Family MYLIOBATIDAE 



Aetobatus narinari (Euphrasen, 1790): Randall, 1986 (after Strasburg). 

 Family MOBULIDAE 



Manta alfredi (Krefft, 1868): Schultz, 1953. 

 Class OSTEICHTHYES 



Subclass ACTINOPTERYGll 

 Order ELOPIFORMES 

 Family ALBULIDAE 



Albula glossodonta (Forsskal, 1775): Randall, 1986. Shaklee and Tamaru (1981) have shown that there are two 

 species of Albula in the Hawaiian Islands (and elsewhere in the Indo-Pacific region), neither of which is A. vulpes (Linnaeus), 

 now known to be restricted to the Atlantic. 

 Order ANGUILLIFORMES 

 Family MORINGUIDAE 



Moringua /erruginea Bliss, 1883. 



Moringua macrocephala Schultz, 1953. 



Moringua macrcxhir Schultz, 1953. Gosline and Strasburg (1956) showed the remarkable differences of immature 

 Hawaiian Moringua from adults and between the sexes (including vertebral counts), as have Castle and Bohlke (1976) 

 for the western Atlantic Moringua edwardsi (Jordan and Bollman). Gosline and Strasburg identified their Hawaiian 

 material as M. macrochir Bleeker. Castle (1968a) believes the Hawaiian species (and thus presumably the specimens 

 from the Marshall Islands identified by Schultz as macrochir) is M. ferruginea. Also, Castle regards M. macrocephala 

 (Bleeker) as the immature form of macrochir. (This table continued on next page.) 



