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Nomenclature Table

RFE LinkFDA - SL Market Name
FDA - SL Common Name
FDA - SL Scientific Name
RFE 2 Letter Code
RFE 8 Letter Code		FDA - SL Vernacular NamesAFS Common Name
AFS Scientific Name
AFS Other Names
AFS Synonyms		FAO Scientific Name
FAO Species Code
FAO Common Name English
FAO Common Name French
FAO Common Name Spanish		FAO Synonyms






Shortfin Mako SharkFDA-SL Market Name: Shark, Mako
FDA-SL Common Name: Shortfin Mako Shark
FDA-SL Sci. Name: Isurus oxyrinchus
FDA RFE WWW 2 Letter code: sn
FDA RFE 8 Letter code: isuroxyr		Vernac. 1) Blue Pointer
Vernac. 2) Bonito Shark
Vernac. 3) Atlantic Mako Shark
Vernac. 4) Pacific Mako Shark





AFS Common Name: Shortfin Mako
AFS Sci. Name: Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque, 1810
AFS Other Names:   N.A.

AFS Synonyms:   N.A.		FAO Sci. Name: Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque, 1809
FAO Species Code: LAMN Isur 1
FAO Common English: Shortfin mako
FAO Common French: Taupe beu
FAO Common Spanish: Marrajo dientuso		FAO Sci. Name with Ref.: Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque, 1809;
Caratt.gen.sp.anim.pinat.Sicilia, Palermo, pt. 1:12, pl. 12, fig. 1.
Holotype: Unknown.
Type Locality: Sicily, Mediterranean Sea.
Other Scientific Names Recently in Use: Isurus glaucus (Muller & Henle, 1839).

FAO Synonyms: Isurus spallanzanii Rafinesque, 1810;
Squalus (Lamna) cepedii Lesson, 1830;
Lamna oxyrhina Cuvier & Valenciennes, in Agassiz, 1838;
Oxyrhina gomphodon Müller & Henle, 1839;
Oxyrhina glauca Müller & Henle, 1839;
Lamna punctata Dekey, 1842 (not L. punctata Storer, 1839, = L. nasus);
? Lamna latro Owen, 1853;
Isuropsis dekayi Gill, 1862 (not Oxyrhina daekayi Gill, 1862 = L. nasus);
Carcharias tigris Atwood, 1865;
Lamna guentheri Murray, 1884;
Lamna huidobrii Philippi, 1887;
Isurus mako Whitley, 1929;
Isurus bideni Phillipps, 1932;
Isurus tigris africanus Smith, 1957.

Geographic Distribution Table

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Fillet ImageShortfin Mako Shark
Isurus oxyrinchus
Shark, Mako		A-PWestern Atlantic: Gulf of Maine to southern Brazil and ? northern Argentina, including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean. Eastern Atlantic: Norway, British Isles and Mediterranean to Ivory Coast, Ghana and S. Africa. Indo-West Pacific: S. Africa and Red Sea to Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Korea, Japan, USSR (Primorsk Kray), Australia (Queensland, Tasmania, South and western Australia, Victoria, New South Wales), New Zealand, New Caledonia and Fiji. Central Pacific: From south of Aleutian Isles to Society Isles, incl. Hawaiian Isles. Eastern Pacific: southern California and exceptionally Washington to central Chile.
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