| Home |
| About |
| Search taxa |
| Taxon tree |
| Literature |
| Checklist |
| Specimens |
| Match taxa |
| Editors |
| Statistics |
| Webservice |
| Photogallery |
| Info downloads |
| Log in |
 RSS |
 Add provider |
WoRMS taxon details
Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey, 1861)
AphiaID: 105794
AphiaID: 105794
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Elasmobranchii (Class) > Neoselachii (Subclass) > Selachii (Infraclass) > Galeomorphi (Superorder) > Carcharhiniformes (Order) > Carcharhinidae (Family) > Carcharhinus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Carcharhinus de Blainville, 1816 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Carcharhinus maou (Lesson, 1831) Carcharias insularum Snyder, 1904 Carcharias longimanus (Poey, 1861) Carcharias obtusus Garman, 1881 Carcharinus longimanus (Poey, 1861) (misspelling) Pterolamiops budkeri Fourmanoir, 1961 (junior synonym) Pterolamiops longimanus (Poey, 1861) Pterolamiops magnipinnis Smith, 1958 Squalus longimanus Poey, 1861 Squalus maou Lesson, 1831 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces - Chondrichthyes, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 358-360 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Garrick, J.A.F. 1982. Sharks of the genus Carcharhinus. NOAA Technical Report NMFS Circular 445:150-159. [details] additional source: Smith, J.L.B. & M.M. Smith (1963). The fishes of Seychelles. Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University. Grahamstown. [details] additional source: FishBase, version december 2007 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details] additional source: Roberts, C.; Stewart, A.; Francis, M. (2009). Marine fishes (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
| ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] Comores [details] Djibouti [details] Eritrea [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] North West Atlantic [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles (from synonym) [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To FishBase To GenBank To Marine Species Identification Portal To Marine Species Identification Portal To Barcode of Life (36 barcodes) To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Oceanic (Ref. 9987). A deep water species which seldom comes close to shore. Preferred water temperatures range from 18 to 28°C. Frequently accompanied by @Remora@ and @Coryphaena@, and tortoises. Feeds mainly on pelagic fish and cephalopods. There is pronounced partial segregation by size and sex in some areas.This is an active, almost fearless shark also charged in human attacks. Utilized for human consumption, for leather, for finsoup, and for oil. Marketed fresh, dried-salted and frozen (Ref. 9987). [details] Diet: Feeds mainly on bony fishes, other sharks, rays, turtles, seabirds, maine mammals, molluscs, crustaceans, and carrion [details] Distribution: Gulf of Maine (near NE edge Georges Bank - Scott & Scott, 1988) to Argentina [details] Habitat: Mainly oceanic, found along the coast in tropical and warm temperate waters. [details] Habitat: nektonic [details] Importance: Social- Fishey and gamefish, dangerous to humans; the object of longline or gill net fisheries for meat, fins liver, oil, fish meal, hides and teeth [details] | ||||||||||
| Image |
| ||||||||||
| Edit history |
| ||||||||||
[Taxonomic tree] [Distribution map] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images] | |||||||||||
| Citation: Bailly, N. (2009). Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey, 1861). In: Nicolas Bailly (2009). World Database of Marine Pisces. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=105794 on 2010-02-09 | |||||||||||
 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License |
