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Carcharhinus
Taxonomy
Carcharhinus was named by de Blainville (1816) [Sepkoski's age data: ]. It is extant. It is the type genus of Carcharhininae, Carcharhinini.
It was synonymized subjectively with Carcharias by Jordan (1907).
It was assigned to Carcharhininae by Hay (1902); to Galeorhinidae by Jordan and Gilbert (1919) and Jordan and Hanibal (1923); to Galeidae by Jordan (1963); to Carcharhinini by Noubhani and Cappetta (1997); to Carcharhiniformes by Sepkoski (2002) and Kriwet (2005); and to Carcharhinidae by White (1926), Arambourg (1927), Casier (1958), Yabe and Hirayama (1998), Purdy et al. (2001), Compagno (2005), Carnevale et al. (2006), Kocsis (2007), Adnet et al. (2007), Cicimurri and Knight (2009), Carillo-Briceño et al. (2014), Reinecke and Radwanski (2015), Carrillo-Briceño et al. (2016), Hastings and Dooley (2017), Szabo et al. (2017), Kent (2018), Ebersole et al. (2019), Landini et al. (2019), Adnet et al. (2020), Villafaña et al. (2020), Collareta et al. (2022), Cicimurri et al. (2022) and Verma (2024).
It was synonymized subjectively with Carcharias by Jordan (1907).
It was assigned to Carcharhininae by Hay (1902); to Galeorhinidae by Jordan and Gilbert (1919) and Jordan and Hanibal (1923); to Galeidae by Jordan (1963); to Carcharhinini by Noubhani and Cappetta (1997); to Carcharhiniformes by Sepkoski (2002) and Kriwet (2005); and to Carcharhinidae by White (1926), Arambourg (1927), Casier (1958), Yabe and Hirayama (1998), Purdy et al. (2001), Compagno (2005), Carnevale et al. (2006), Kocsis (2007), Adnet et al. (2007), Cicimurri and Knight (2009), Carillo-Briceño et al. (2014), Reinecke and Radwanski (2015), Carrillo-Briceño et al. (2016), Hastings and Dooley (2017), Szabo et al. (2017), Kent (2018), Ebersole et al. (2019), Landini et al. (2019), Adnet et al. (2020), Villafaña et al. (2020), Collareta et al. (2022), Cicimurri et al. (2022) and Verma (2024).
Species
C. ackermani, C. albimarginatus, C. antiquus, C. balochenisis, C. brachyurus, C. dicelmai, C. egertoni, C. elongatus, C. falciformis, C. frequens, C. gibbesii, C. gilmorei, C. kasserinensis, C. lamia (syn. C. commersoni), C. leucas, C. macloti, C. magdalenae, C. mancinae, C. marcaisi, C. nigeriensis, C. obscurus, C. perezi, C. perseus, C. plumbeus, C. porosus, C. priscus, C. sorrah
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1816 | Carcharhinus de Blainville |
| 1902 | Carcharhinus Hay p. 312 |
| 1919 | Carcharhinus Jordan and Gilbert p. 21 |
| 1923 | Carcharhinus Jordan and Hanibal p. 36 |
| 1926 | Carcharhinus White p. 36 |
| 1927 | Carcharhinus Arambourg p. 230 |
| 1958 | Carcharhinus Casier p. 40 |
| 1963 | Carcharhinus Jordan p. 599 |
| 1997 | Carcharhinus Noubhani and Cappetta p. 88 |
| 1998 | Carcharhinus Yabe and Hirayama p. 50 |
| 2001 | Carcharhinus Purdy et al. p. 149 |
| 2002 | Carcharhinus Sepkoski |
| 2005 | Carcharhinus Compagno |
| 2005 | Carcharhinus Kriwet |
| 2006 | Carcharhinus Carnevale et al. p. 362 |
| 2007 | Carcharhinus Adnet et al. p. 305 |
| 2007 | Carcharhinus Kocsis p. 36 |
| 2009 | Carcharhinus Cicimurri and Knight p. 632 |
| 2014 | Carcharhinus Carillo-Briceño et al. p. 83 |
| 2015 | Carcharhinus Reinecke and Radwanski p. 13 |
| 2016 | Carcharhinus Carrillo-Briceño et al. p. 87 |
| 2017 | Carcharhinus Hastings and Dooley p. 83 |
| 2017 | Carcharhinus Szabo et al. |
| 2018 | Carcharhinus Kent p. 111 |
| 2019 | Carcharhinus Ebersole et al. p. 67 |
| 2019 | Carcharhinus Landini et al. p. 361 |
| 2020 | Carcharhinus Adnet et al. p. 6 |
| 2020 | Carcharhinus Villafaña et al. |
| 2022 | Carcharhinus Cicimurri et al. |
| 2022 | Carcharhinus Collareta et al. p. 6 |
| 2024 | Carcharhinus Verma p. 1995 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Carcharhinus de Blainville 1816
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†Carcharhinus ackermani Santos and Travasos 1960
Carcharhinus albimarginatus Rüppell 1837
†Carcharhinus antiquus Agassiz 1856
†Carcharhinus balochenisis Adnet et al. 2007
Carcharhinus brachyurus Gunther 1870
†Carcharhinus dicelmai Collareta et al. 2022
†Carcharhinus egertoni Agassiz 1843
†Carcharhinus elongatus Leriche 1910
†Carcharhinus falciformis Bibron 1841
†Carcharhinus frequens Dames 1883
Carcharhinus gibbesii Woodward 1889
†Carcharhinus gilmorei Leriche 1942
†Carcharhinus kasserinensis Adnet et al. 2020
Carcharhinus lamia Cuvier 1817
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Invalid names: Carcharhinus commersoni Blainville 1816 [synonym]
†Carcharhinus leucas Valenciennes 1839
†Carcharhinus macloti Muller and Henle 1839
†Carcharhinus magdalenae Jordan and Hanibal 1923
†Carcharhinus mancinae Ebersole et al. 2019
†Carcharhinus marcaisi Arambourg 1952
†Carcharhinus nigeriensis White 1926
†Carcharhinus obscurus Le Sueur 1818
Carcharhinus perezi Poey 1876
†Carcharhinus perseus Adnet et al. 2007
†Carcharhinus plumbeus Nardo 1827
Carcharhinus porosus Ranzani 1839
†Carcharhinus priscus Agassiz 1843
Carcharhinus sorrah Valenciennes 1841
†Negaprion gibbesi gilmorei White 1956
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available