A Classification of the Recent Elasmobranchii

Carcharias [Prionodon] leucas MUELLER & HENLE)
Aprionodon BIGELOW & SCHROEDER 1948 ,type Carcharias (Aprion) brevipinna
Pterolamia SPRINGER 1950 (name preoccupied), type Squalus longimanus POEY 1861 ( = Squalus
(Carcharias) maou LESSON 1830)
Pterolamiops SPRINGER 1951 (new name for Pterolamia SPRINGER )
C. OBSCURUS (Lesueur) 1818 Dusky Shark; Shovelnose Grey Shark; Ridgeback Grey
Shark; Common Whaler (Aus.); Black Whaler (Aus.); South Australian Whaler (Aus.);
? Squalus vulpecula SOLANDER 1777 t/l; Australia
Squalus obscurus LESUEUR 1818 t/l; "North America" = East coast of USA.
? Carcharias falcipinnis LOWE 1839 t/l;Madeira
Carcharias (Prionodon) obvelatus VALENCIENNES 1844 t/l; Canary Is.
Carcharias macrurus RAMSAY & OGILBY 1887 t/l; Port Jackson, NSW., Aus.
? Hypoprion / Hemigaleus heterodus PHILIPPI 1887 t/l;Chile
Carcharhinus commersonii LOZANO 1928
Carcharhinus iranzae FOURMANOIR 1961 t/l; Madagascar
Carcharhinus obscurella DENG, XIONG & ZHAN 1981 t/l;S. China
Range; Worldwide in warm temperate & tropical seas, inshore & offshore but not oceanic.
West Atlantic; S.Massachusetts to S. Brazil. Not common between Delaware Bay & N. Florida.
East Atlantic;Madeira; Canaries; Senegal; Cape Verdes;Sierra Leone to Table Bay,S. Africa.
Ascension & St. Helena. Natal, Moz., Madagascar; S.Japan; S. China; East & West Australia. Baja
California . Formerly thought to be absent from the Mediterranean, there have been some recently
confirmed records of this species fron the area.
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C. MELANOPTERUS (Quoy & Gaimard) 1824 Reef Blacktip Shark;
"Guliman"
? Squalus (Carcharhinus) ustus BLAINVILLE 1816 (n. nud.)
Carcharias melanopterus QUOY & GAIMARD 1824 t/l; Waigeo I., NW. New Guinea.
Carcharhinus commersonii BLAINVILLE 1825 (as restricted by Garrick 1982)
Squalus ustus DUMERIL 1865
Carcharias (Hypoprion) playfairii GUNTHER 1870 t/l; Zanzibar
Carcharias elegans (KLUNZINGER 1871) HEMPRICH & EHRENBERG 1899 (name in synonymy)
t/l; Red Sea
Carcharias marianensis ENGELHARDT 1912 t/l; Guam
Range; Tropical and warm temperate Indo-Pacific from Red Sea to S. Africa east to Japan,Hawaii
and Queensland. Recently in the southern Med. via the Suez Canal.
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C. PLUMBEUS (Nardo) 1827 Sandbar Shark; Northern Whaler (Aus.)
Squalus plumbeus NARDO 1827 t/l; Adriatic
Carcharias (Prionodon) milberti VALENCIENNES in MUELLER & HENLE 1841 t/l;New York
Carcharias ceruleus DEKAY 1842 (non Squalus (Carcharhinus) caeruleus BLAINVILLE 1816 =
Prionace glauca) t/l; New York to New Hampshire
Lamna caudata DEKAY 1842 t/l; Rhode Island
Squalus caecchia NARDO 1847 t/l; near Venice.
Carcharias (Prionodon) japonicus TEMMINCK & SCHLEGEL 1850 t/l;Japan
? Carcharias leucos GUICHENOT 1850 (non leucas M. & H.) (Algeria)
Carcharias (Prionodon) obtusirostris MOREAU 1881 (Cette, Nice, Atlantic)
Carcharias stevensi OGILBY 1911 t/l; Bustard Bay & N.W.Islet, Queensland, Aus.
Carcharhinus latistomus FANG & WANG 1932 t/l; Tsingtau, China.
Galeolamna (Galeolamnoides) dorsalis WHITLEY 1944 t/l; Western Australia.
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