Carcharhinus Blainville, 1816

White, William T., 2012, A redescription of Carcharhinus dussumieri and C. sealei, with resurrection of C. coatesi and C. tjutjot as valid species (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhinidae), Zootaxa 3241, pp. 1-34 : 3

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Carcharhinus Blainville, 1816
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Genus Carcharhinus Blainville, 1816 View in CoL View at ENA

Type species. Carcharias melanopterus Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 , under suspension of the Rules by the ICZN, Opinion 723, 1965, Bull. Zool. Nomencl. 22: 32.

SPECIES. Carcharhinus includes at least 33 nominal species: C. acronotus ( Poey, 1860) , C. albimarginatus ( Rüppell, 1837) , C. altimus ( Springer, 1950) , C. amblyrhynchoides ( Whitley, 1934) , C. amblyrhynchos (Bleeker, 1856) , C. amboinensis ( Müller & Henle, 1839) , C. borneensis ( Bleeker, 1858) , C. brachyurus ( Günther, 1870) , C. brevipinna ( Müller & Henle, 1839) , C. cautus ( Whitley, 1945) , C. cerdale Gilbert, 1898 , C. coatesi ( Whitley, 1939) , C. dussumieri ( Müller & Henle, 1839) , C. falciformis ( Müller & Henle, 1839) , C. fitzroyensis ( Whitley, 1943) , C. galapagensis ( Snodgrass & Heller, 1905) , C. hemiodon ( Müller & Henle, 1839) , C. isodon ( Müller & Henle, 1839) , C. leiodon Garrick, 1985 , C. leucas ( Müller & Henle, 1839) , C. limbatus ( Müller & Henle, 1839) , C. longimanus (Poey, 1861) , C. macloti ( Müller & Henle, 1839) , C. melanopterus ( Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) , C. obscurus ( Lesueur, 1818) , C. perezi ( Poey, 1876) , C. plumbeus ( Nardo, 1827) , C. porosus ( Ranzani, 1839) , C. sealei ( Pietschmann, 1913) , C. signatus ( Poey, 1868) , C. sorrah ( Müller & Henle, 1839) , C. tilstoni ( Whitley, 1950) , C. tjutjot ( Bleeker, 1852) ; and about two undescribed species, C. sp. A [sensu Compagno et al., 2005] and C. sp. (this paper). The inclusion of C. wheeleri Garrick, 1982 and C. acarenatus Moreno & Hoyos, 1983 as valid species in Voigt & Weber (2011) needs to be further examined and confirmed.

Comparative material. Carcharhinus sp.: CSIRO H 6891–01 (jaws, and pectoral and first dorsal fins only), male 731 mm TL, Fahaheel fish market, Kuwait City, 29°04.75’ N, 48°08.57’ E, 17th April 2008, collected by A. Moore.

Blainville, H. de (1816) Prodrome d'une nouvelle distribution systematique du regne animal. Bulletin de la Societe Philomathique de Paris, 8, 105 - 112.

Bleeker, P. (1852) Bijdrage tot de kennis der Plagiostomen van den Indischen Archipel. Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, 24, 1 - 92.

Bleeker, P. (1858) Twaalfde bijdrage tot de kennis der vischfauna van Borneo. Visschen van Sinkawang. Acta Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Indo-Neerlandicae, 5, 1 - 10.

Compagno, L. J. V., Dando, M. & Fowler, S. (2005) A Field Guide to the Sharks of the World. Harper Collins Publishing Ltd., London, 368 pp.

Garrick, J. A. F (1982) Sharks of the genus Carcharhinus. NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Technical Report NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) Circular No. 194 pp.

Garrick, J. A. F. (1985) Additions to revision of the shark genus Carcharhinus: synonymy of Aprionodon and Hypoprion, and description of a new species of Carcharhinus (Carcharhinidae). NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Technical Report NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service), 34, 1 - 26.

Gilbert, C. H. in Jordan, D. S. & Evermann, B. W. (1898) The fishes of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America north of the Isthmus of Panama. Part III. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 47, 2183 a - 3136.

Gunther, A. (1870) Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. 8, 1 - 549.

Lesueur, C. A. (1818) Description of several new species of North American fishes. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1, 222 - 235, 359 - 368.

Muller, J. & Henle, F. G. J. (1839) Systematische Beschreibung der Plagiostomen. Berlin. Plagiostomen. pp. 29 - 102.

Nardo, G. D. (1827) Prodromus observationum et disquisitionum Adriaticae ichthyologiae. Giornale di fisica, chimica e storia naturele, medicina, ed arti. Dec. II, 10, 22 - 40.

Pietschmann, V. (1913) Fische des Wiesbadener Museums. Jahrbucher des Nassauischen Vereins fur Naturkunde. Wiesbaden, 66, 170 - 201.

Poey, F. (1860 - 1861) Memorias sobra la historia natural de la Isla de Cuba, acompanadas de sumarios Latinos y extractos en Frances. Tomo 2. La Habana. 1860, 97 - 336; 1861, 337 - 442.

Poey, F. (1868) Synopsis piscium cubensium. Catalogo Razonado de los peces de la isla de Cuba. Repertorio Fisico-Natural de la Isla de Cuba, 2, 279 - 484.

Poey, F. (1876) Enumeratio piscium cubensium (Parte III). Anales de la Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural, Madrid, 5, 373 - 404.

Quoy, J. R. C. & Gaimard, J. P. (1824) Description des Poissons. Chapter IX. In: L. de Freycinet. Voyage autour du Monde ... execute sur les corvettes de L. M. L'Uranie et La Physicienne, pendant les annees 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820. Paris. Description des Poissons. Chapter IX. 1 - 328.

Ranzani, C. (1839) De novis speciebus piscium. Dissertatio prima. Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Instituti Bononiensis, 4, 65 - 83.

Ruppell, W. P. E. S. (1837) Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehorig. Fische des Rothen Meeres. Frankfurt-am- Main. 53 - 80.

Snodgrass, R. E. & Heller, E. (1905) Papers from the Hopkins-Stanford Galapagos Expedition, 1898 - 1899. XVII. Shore fishes of the Revillagigedo, Clipperton, Cocos and Galapagos Islands. Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Science, 6, 333 - 427.

Springer, S. (1950) A revision of North American sharks allied to the genus Carcharhinus. American Museum Novitates, 1451, 1 - 13.

Voigt, M. & Weber, D. (2011) Field guide for sharks of the genus Carcharhinus. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, Munchen, Germany, p. 151.

Whitley, G. P. (1934) Notes on some Australian sharks. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 10, 180 - 200.

Whitley, G. P. (1939) Taxonomic notes on sharks and rays. Australian Zoologist, 9, 227 - 262.

Whitley, G. P. (1943) Ichthyological descriptions and notes. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 68, 114 - 144.

Whitley, G. P. (1945) New sharks and fishes from Western Australia. Part 2. Australian Zoologist, 11, 1 - 42.

Whitley, G. P. (1950) A new shark from north-western Australia. Western Australian Naturalist, 2, 100 - 105.

CSIRO

Australian National Fish Collection

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

ParvPhylum

Chondrichthyes

Class

Elasmobranchii

Order

Carcharhiniformes

Family

Carcharhinidae