Carcharhinus acuarius (Probst, 1879)

Höltke, Olaf, Salvador, Rodrigo B. & Rasser, Michael W., 2023, Trophic relationships in the Early Miocene Upper Marine Molasse of Baden-Württemberg, Southwest Germany, with special emphasis on the elasmobranch fauna, Palaeontologia Electronica (a 46) 26 (3), pp. 1-38 : 35

Carcharhinus acuarius (Probst, 1879)

Tooth type: Tearing.

The next recent congener is Carcharhinus oxyrhynchus (Müller and Henle, 1839) , which feeds on small schooling fishes and has a TL of 4.5 (Ebert et al., 2021; Froese and Pauly, 2019). This Recent species was previously the type species of the monotypic genus Isogomphodon Gill, 1862 . Based on molecular genetics, da Silva Rodrigues-Filho et al. (2023) mentioned Isogomphodon as a synonym of Carcharhinus .

This species lives in turbid waters in estuaries, mangroves and river mouths, as well as over shallow banks, in depths between 4 and 40 m (Ebert et al., 2021).