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WoRMS taxon details
Carcharhinus plumbeus (Nardo, 1827)
AphiaID: 105797
AphiaID: 105797
| 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 japonicus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850) Carcharhinus milberti (Müller & Henle, 1839) Carcharhinus platyodon Jord. & Ererm. Carcharias ceruleus DeKay, 1842 Carcharias japonicus Temminck & Schlegel, 1850 Carcharias latistomus (Fang & Wang, 1932) Carcharias milberti Müller & Henle, 1839 Carcharias obtusirostris Moreau, 1881 Carcharias stevensi Ogilby, 1911 Carcharinus latistomus Fang & Wang, 1932 Carcharinus plumbeus (Nardo, 1827) (misspelling) Eulamia milberti (Müller & Henle, 1839) Galeolamna dorsalis Whitley, 1944 Galeolamna stevensi (Ogilby, 1911) Lamna caudata DeKay, 1842 Squalus caecchia Nardo, 1847 Squalus plumbeus Nardo, 1827 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Fourmanoir, P. (1961). Requins de la Cote Ouest de Madagascar. Memoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar Serie F (Oceanographie) 4: 1-82 [details] basis of record: Randall, J.E. (1992). Red Sea Reef Fishes. Immel Publishing. [details] 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: Põllumäe, A [details] additional source: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version december 2007 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details] additional source: McEachran, J. D. 2009. Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Environment | marine, brackish, | |||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Djibouti [details] Eritrea [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Grecian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] North West Atlantic [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [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 (79 barcodes) To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Found over sandy and muddy areas of coastal waters, including estuaries. May inhabit oceanic waters. Feeds on benthic animals, fishes, rays, gastropods, and squids (Ref. 5213). Viviparous; litter size 1-14 pups, born during midsummer (Ref. 5485); 56-75 cm at birth (Ref. 2334). Populations are segregated by age. Preferred water tempeatures range from 23 to 27°C. Potentially dangerous but has never been incriminated in any attack on people. Utilized for human consumption, for leather and oil. Marketed fresh, dried-salted and frozen; fins are valued for soup (Ref. 9987). [details] Diet: Feeds mainly on bony fishes, also small sharks, cephalopods, and shrimps [details] Distribution: Massachusetts (Woods Hole, straying into Gulf of Maine) to southern Brazil [details] Habitat: nektonic [details] Importance: Social & Scientific- Commercial, gamefish, aquarium fish, Utilized for human consumption, for leather and oil. Chinese medicine [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2009). Carcharhinus plumbeus (Nardo, 1827). 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=105797 on 2010-09-02 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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