Carcharhinus is the type genus of the family Carcharhinidae. One of 10 genera in its family, it contains over half of the species therein. It contains 36-38 extant and eight extinct species to date, with likely more species yet to be described.[3]
Species
Fossil teeth suggest that a majority of extant species in Carcharhinus already evolved by the Early Miocene, and these species start appearing in the fossil record starting from this time.[4] Fossil Carcharhinus teeth tend to be highly species-specific in morphology, but are highly variable both within and among species, and even within the jaw, and thus require careful study to assign to their respective species.[5]
Extant
The following species are placed in this genus:[6]
In addition, Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes recognizes two species of uncertain validity:[6]
- Carcharhinus acarenatusMoreno & Hoyos, 1983 - Native to the western Mediterranean Sea and eastern Atlantic, around the coast of the Iberian Peninsula south to Morocco. Often treated as synonymous with the copper shark.
- Carcharhinus japonicusTemminck & Schlegel, 1850 - Native to the northwestern Pacific Ocean. Often treated as synonymous with the sandbar shark.
Fossil
See also
References
- ↑Carrier, J.C.; J.A. Musick & M.R. Heithaus (2004). Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives. CRC Press. p. 52. ISBN 0-8493-1514-X.
- 12Cicimurri & Knight, 2009
- ↑Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Carcharhinus". FishBase. February 2011 version.
- ↑ Höltke, Olaf; Maxwell, Erin E.; Rasser, Michael W. (26 de febrero de 2024). "Una revisión de la paleobiología de algunos tiburones del Neógeno y los registros fósiles de especies de tiburones existentes" . Diversity . 16 (3): 147. Bibcode : 2024Diver..16..147H . doi : 10.3390/d16030147 . ISSN 1424-2818 .
- ↑ Naylor, Gavin JP; Naylor, Gavin JP; Marcus, Leslie Floyd (1994). Identificación de dientes de tiburón aislados del género Carcharhinus a nivel de especie: relevancia para el seguimiento del cambio filogenético a través del registro fósil . Vol. 3109. Nueva York, NY: Museo Americano de Historia Natural.
- 1 2 Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. y van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Especies del género Carcharhinus " . Catálogo de peces . Academia de Ciencias de California . Consultado el 7 de septiembre de 2025 .
- ↑ Harris et al., 2019
- ^ Carcharhinus egertoni en Fossilworks.org
- 1 2 3 De Aráujo Távora et al., 2010
- ^ Carcharhinus priscus en Fossilworks.org
- ↑ Carrillo Briceño et al., 2015
- ^ Aguilera y De Aguilera, 2001
- ↑ C. ackermani en Fossilworks.org
- ↑ Collareta, Alberto; Kindlimann, René; Baglioni, Alessio; Landini, Walter; Sarti, Giovanni; Altamirano, Alí; Urbina, Mario; Bianucci, Giovanni (2022-10-10). "Morfología dental, paleoecología y significado paleobiogeográfico de una nueva especie de tiburón réquiem (género Carcharhinus) del Mioceno inferior del Perú (Cuenca del Pisco Oriental, Formación Chilcatay)" . Journal of Marine Science and Engineering . 10 (10): 1466. Bibcode : 2022JMSE...10.1466C . doi : 10.3390/jmse10101466 . hdl : 11568/1160771 . ISSN 2077-1312 .
- ↑ C. gibbesi en Fossilworks.org
- ↑Samonds, Karen E.; Andrianavalona, Tsiory H.; Wallett, Lane A.; Zalmout, Iyad S.; Ward, David J. (2019-02-27). "A middle - late Eocene neoselachian assemblage from nearshore marine deposits, Mahajanga Basin, northwestern Madagascar". PLOS ONE. 14 (2) e0211789. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0211789. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 6392239.
- 12Adnet et al., 2007
- ↑C. balochenisis at Fossilworks.org
- ↑C. perseus at Fossilworks.org
- ↑C. nigeriensis at Fossilworks.org
- ↑Halstead & Middleton, 1974
- ↑J. Cicimurri, David; A. Ebersole, Jun (2021-01-01). "New Paleogene elasmobranch (Chondrichthyes) records from the Gulf Coastal Plain of the United States, including a new species of Carcharhinus de Blainville, 1816". Cainozoic Research. 21 (2): 147–164. ISSN 1570-0399.
- ↑"40 Million-Year-Old Fossil Shark Named in Honor of LSU Collection Manager Suyin Ting". www.lsu.edu. Retrieved 2025-11-07.
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- Carcharhinus
- Géneros de tiburones
- Primeras apariciones de especies existentes en el Eoceno
- Taxones nombrados por Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville