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Carcharhinus leucas
Taxonomy
Carcharias leucas was named by Valenciennes (1839).
It was recombined as Carcharhinus leucas by Purdy et al. (2001), Kent (2018) and Landini et al. (2019).
It was recombined as Carcharhinus leucas by Purdy et al. (2001), Kent (2018) and Landini et al. (2019).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1839 | Carcharias leucas Valenciennes |
| 2001 | Carcharhinus leucas Purdy et al. p. 151 |
| 2018 | Carcharhinus leucas Kent p. 115 |
| 2019 | Carcharhinus leucas Landini et al. p. 361 |
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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.
†Carcharhinus leucas Valenciennes 1839
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: o = order, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Wagner 2023, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Age range: base of the Chattian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 28.10000 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (33 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Chattian | USA (South Carolina) | Carcharhinus leucas (211540) | |
| Aquitanian - Langhian | USA (North Carolina) | Carcharhinus leucas (48887) | |
| Burdigalian | Peru (Ica) | Carcharhinus leucas (100330) | |
| Burdigalian | Peru | Carcharhinus leucas (167732) | |
| Middle Miocene | USA (Florida) | Carcharhinus leucas (161381) | |
| Early/Lower Clarendonian | USA (Florida) | Carcharhinus leucas (161375 161377) | |
| Late/Upper Clarendonian | USA (Florida) | Carcharhinus leucas (18554) | |
| Tortonian | Panama | Carcharhinus leucas (96700) | |
| Tortonian | Panama (Colon) | Carcharhinus leucas (160565) | |
| Tortonian | Venezuela | Carcharhinus leucas (200110 200111) | |
| Tortonian - Zanclean | Panama (Colon) | Carcharhinus leucas (168112) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | USA (Florida) | Carcharhinus leucas (162452) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | Peru (Piura) | Carcharhinus leucas (162465) | |
| Hemphillian | USA (Florida) | Carcharhinus leucas (18556) | |
| Messinian | Portugal | Carcharhinus leucas (91423) | |
| Messinian | Portugal (Azores) | Carcharhinus leucas (154210) | |
| MN 13 | Portugal (Alvalade) | Carcharhinus leucas (65955) | |
| Messinian - Zanclean | Mexico (Baja) | Carcharhinus leucas (154117) | |
| Zanclean | Spain (Andalusia) | Carcharhinus leucas (232725) | |
| Zanclean | USA (Florida) | Carcharhinus leucas (46369) | |
| Zanclean | Portugal | Carcharhinus leucas (152330) | |
| Zanclean | USA (North Carolina) | Carcharhinus leucas (52582) | |
| Pliocene | Mexico (Baja California) | Carcharhinus leucas (96587) | |
| Blancan | Mexico (Baja California Sur) | Carcharhinus leucas (154118) | |
| Irvingtonian | USA (Florida) | Carcharhinus leucas (20400 58089) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (South Carolina) | Carcharhinus leucas (188304) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial) | USA (Georgia) | Carcharhinus leucas (20604 20613) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Brazil (Rio Grand do Sul) | Carcharhinus leucas (211308) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | USA (Alabama) | Carcharhinus leucas (187584) |