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Carcharhinus
Blainville, 1816
(fish)
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Carcharhinidae (Family) - requiem sharks
..Glyphis (Genus)
..Lamiopsis (Genus)
..Loxodon (Genus)
..Nasolamia (Genus)
..Negaprion (Genus)
..Prionace (Genus)
..Rhizoprionodon (Genus)
..Scoliodon (Genus)
..Triaenodon (Genus)
..Carcharhinus (Genus)
....Carcharhinus acronotus (Species) - blacknose shark
....Carcharhinus albimarginatus (Species) - shark
....Carcharhinus altimus (Species) - bignose shark
....Carcharhinus amblyrhynchoides (Species) - graceful shark
....Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Species) - shark
....Carcharhinus amboinensis (Species) - Java shark
....Carcharhinus borneensis (Species) - Borneo shark
....Carcharhinus brachyurus (Species) - bronze
....Carcharhinus brevipinna (Species) - great blacktip shark
....Carcharhinus cautus (Species) - nervous shark
....Carcharhinus dussumieri (Species) - whitecheek shark
....Carcharhinus falciformis (Species) - ridgeback shark
....Carcharhinus fitzroyensis (Species) - creek whaler
....Carcharhinus galapagensis (Species) - Galapagos shark
....Carcharhinus hemiodon (Species) - Pondicherry shark
....Carcharhinus isodon (Species) - finetooth shark
....Carcharhinus leiodon (Species) - smoothtooth blacktip
....Carcharhinus leucas (Species) - bull shark
....Carcharhinus limbatus (Species) - blacktip reef shark
....Carcharhinus longimanus (Species) - oceanic whitetip shark
....Carcharhinus macloti (Species) - hardnose shark
....Carcharhinus melanopterus (Species) - shark
....Carcharhinus obscurus (Species) - dusky shark
....Carcharhinus perezi (Species) - reef shark
....Carcharhinus plumbeus (Species) - brown shark
....Carcharhinus porosus (Species) - shark
....Carcharhinus sealei (Species) - blackspot shark
....Carcharhinus signatus (Species) - night shark
....Carcharhinus sorrah (Species) - spottail shark
....Carcharhinus tilstoni (Species) - Australian blacktip shark
Authorship
SN2000 author citation
:
de Blainville, 1816
Original name
:
de Blainville, 1816. Bull. Sci. Soc. philom. Paris, 121; 1816, J. Physique, 83, 264.
Types
Type of
:
Carcharhinidae
(Family)
Jordan & Evermann, 1896
Ref:
R. Fricke et al. (eds.), 2021
: 9 Apr 2025; [<11 May 2025].
[inferred]
Variants
Different spelling
:
Carcharinus
(Genus)
Synonyms
Including
:
Isogomphodon
(Genus)
Gill, 1862
Ref:
R. Fricke et al. (eds.), 2021
: 9 Apr 2025.
Vernacular Names (Dutch)
Full name
:
mensenhaaien
Ref:
B. Grzimek (ed.), 1973-1975
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Last updated:
21 Sep 2025