Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Alternative spelling: Carcharinus
Parent taxon: Carcharhinidae according to H. M. Maisch IV et al. 2025
See also Adnet et al. 2007, Adnet et al. 2020, Arambourg 1927, Cantalice et al. 2025, Carillo-Briceño et al. 2014, Carnevale et al. 2006, Carrillo-Briceño et al. 2016, Casier 1958, Cicimurri and Ebersole 2021, Cicimurri et al. 2025, Cicimurri and Knight 2009, Cicimurri et al. 2022, Collareta et al. 2022, Compagno 2005, Dartevelle and Casier 1943, Ebersole et al. 2019, Hastings and Dooley 2017, Hay 1902, Jordan 1907, Jordan 1963, Jordan and Gilbert 1919, Jordan and Hanibal 1923, Kent 2018, Kocsis 2007, Kriwet 2005, Landau et al. 2025, Landini et al. 2019, Noubhani and Cappetta 1997, Purdy et al. 2001, Rana et al. 2021, Reinecke and Radwanski 2015, Sepkoski 2002, Szabo et al. 2017, Verma 2024, Villafaña et al. 2020, White 1926 and Yabe and Hirayama 1998
Sister taxa: Alopiopsis, Aprionodon, Archaeogaleus, Carcharhininae, Danogaleus, Eogaleus, Galeocerdo, Glyphis, Hypoprion, Isogomphodon, Kruckowlamna, Lamiopsis, Loxodon, Misrichthys, Nasolamia, Negaprion, Physodon, Prionace, Pseudabdounia, Rhizoprionodon, Scoliodontinae, Tingaleus, Triaenodon
Subtaxa: Carcharhinus (Prionodon) Carcharhinus acanthodon Carcharhinus ackermannii Carcharhinus acronotus Carcharhinus albimarginatus Carcharhinus altimus Carcharhinus amblyrhynchoides Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos Carcharhinus amboinensis Carcharhinus antiquus Carcharhinus balochenisis Carcharhinus bhubanicus Carcharhinus brachyurus Carcharhinus brevipinna Carcharhinus caquetius Carcharhinus cionei Carcharhinus collatus Carcharhinus dicelmai Carcharhinus egertoni Carcharhinus elongatus Carcharhinus falciformis Carcharhinus galapagensis Carcharhinus gibbesii Carcharhinus gilmorei Carcharhinus kasserinensis Carcharhinus lamia Carcharhinus leucas Carcharhinus limbatus Carcharhinus longimanus Carcharhinus macloti Carcharhinus magdalenae Carcharhinus malembeensis Carcharhinus mancinae Carcharhinus marcaisi Carcharhinus melanopterus Carcharhinus nigeriensis Carcharhinus obscurus Carcharhinus perezi Carcharhinus perseus Carcharhinus plumbeus Carcharhinus porosus Carcharhinus priscus Carcharhinus sealei Carcharhinus signatus Carcharhinus sorrah Carcharhinus tingae Carcharhinus tjutjot
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Brazil (3 collections), Chile (4), Ecuador (2), Italy (2), Jamaica (1), Japan (3), Mexico (1), Taiwan (1), United States (17: Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia)
• Blancan of Mexico (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of United States (2: California, Florida)
• Pliocene of Australia (2), Belgium (1), Chile (4), Ecuador (4), Greece (1), Italy (8), Japan (4), Libya (1), Mexico (4), the Netherlands (1), North Atlantic (1), Peru (1), Portugal (2), Spain (15), United States (6: California, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina), Venezuela (1)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Angola (1), Australia (1), Chile (1), Ecuador (1), Japan (3), Mexico (2), North Atlantic (1), Panama (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Neogene of United States (1: South Carolina)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Angola (3), Argentina (2), Australia (6), Austria (8), Belgium (6), Brazil (16), Brunei Darussalam (4), Chile (1), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (4), Cuba (1), Czechia (1), Ecuador (5), Egypt (1), France (20), Germany (2), Grenada (5), Hungary (3), India (10), Jamaica (1), Japan (32), Madagascar (2), Malta (4), Mexico (5), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (3), Oman (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (28), Peru (13), Poland (2), Portugal (13), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovakia (3), South Africa (1), South Korea (1), Spain (2), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (33: California, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Uruguay (5), Venezuela (23)
• Oligocene of Angola (5), Australia (2), Belgium (5), Egypt (2), France (1), Germany (3), Japan (4), Oman (1), Pakistan (6), Poland (1), United States (8: California, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina), Venezuela (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Barbados (2), Egypt (29), India (3), Jamaica (1), Nigeria (4), Pakistan (1), Tunisia (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (21: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas), Western Sahara (4)
Total: 493 collections including 790 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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