A Classification of the Recent Elasmobranchii

Carcharias zambesensis BOULENGER 1909 (emendation)
Carcharias spenceri OGILBY 1911 t/l; Brisbane River, Australia.
Galeolamna (Bogimba) bogimba WHITLEY 1943 t/l; off Queensland
Galeolamna greyi mckaili WHITLEY 1945 t/l; Swan River, Western Australia.
Carcharhinus vanrooyeni J.L.B. SMITH 1958 t/l; Natal, S.Africa.
Range; Tropical inshore waters worldwide as well as lakes,rivers, estuaries. Found far up the
Amazon, in the Mississippi & Atchafalaya Rivers, Zambezi, Lake Nicararagua and Izbal in Central
America, and Lake Jamoer, New Guinea.
W.Atlantic North Carolina to Southern Brazil. Occasionally New York. East Atlantic; Morocco to
Angola.
Indo-Pacific; Natal to Philippines and Australia.
E. Pacific; Lower California to Peru.
Many of the references in the literature to gangeticus are thought to refer to leucas.Only three type
specimens are indubitably gangeticus.
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C. LIMBATUS (Valenciennes in Mueller & Henle) 1839 Small Blacktip Shark; Volador;
Carconetta; Blacktip Whaler
Cucuri MARCGRAVE 1648 Hist. rerum nat. Brasil
? Carcharias microps LOWE 1840 t/l; Madeira
Carcharias (Prionodon) limbatus VALENCIENNES in MUELLER & HENLE 1839 t/l; No loc.
(Dumeril [1865] gave Martinique & Bahia)
Carcharias (Prionodon) pleurotaenia BLEEKER 1852 t/l; Batavia, Java.
? Prionodon cucuri CASTELNAU 1855 t/l; Bahia, Brazil.
Carcharias (Prionodon) muelleri STEINDACHNER 1867 (non Carcharias (Physodon) muelleri
MUELLER & HENLE = Scoliodon laticaudus)
Carcharias maculipinna GUNTHER 1868 (non maculipinnis POEY ) ( teeth, Chiapam, Pacific
Guatamala)
Carcharias ehrenbergi KLUNZINGER 1871 t/l; Red Sea
Carcharias abbreviatus (KLUNZINGER 1871) HEMPRICH & EHRENBERG 1899 t/l; Red Sea
Carcharias aethalorus JORDAN & GILBERT 1882 t/l; Mazatlan, Mexico.
Carcharias phorcys JORDAN &EVERMANN 1903 t/l; Honolulu, Hawaii.
Carcharhinus natator MEEK & HILDEBRAND 1923 t/l; Panama City, Panama.
Range;W. Atlantic; N.Carolina to S.Brazil. Occasionally to Southern New England.
E.Atlantic;Mediterranean; Madeira;Cape Verdes;Senegal;Cameroon.
E. Pacific; Lower California to Peru.
Indo-Pacific; Red Sea & South Africa to S.China and Australia. Central Pacific around islands.
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