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Carcharhinus melanopterus (blacktip reef shark)
Taxonomy
Carcharias melanopterus was named by Quoy and Gaimard (1824). It is extant.
It was recombined as Carcharhinus melanopterus by Kocsis et al. (2019).
It was recombined as Carcharhinus melanopterus by Kocsis et al. (2019).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1824 | Carcharias melanopterus Quoy and Gaimard |
| 2019 | Carcharhinus melanopterus Kocsis et al. p. 801 fig. 5H |
| 2025 | Carcharias melanopterus Landau et al. p. 22 |
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Carcharhinus melanopterus Quoy and Gaimard 1824 [blacktip reef shark]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available