WoRMS taxon details
Sphyrna tiburo (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 158517
AphiaID: 158517
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Elasmobranchii (Class) > Neoselachii (Subclass) > Selachii (Infraclass) > Galeomorphi (Superorder) > Carcharhiniformes (Order) > Sphyrnidae (Family) > Sphyrna (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Sphyrna Rafinesque, 1810 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Sphyrna tiburo tiburo (Linnaeus, 1758) Sphyrna vespertina Springer, 1940 Squalus tiburo Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] basis of record: Collette, B.B., and G. Klein-MacPhee (eds.). 2002. Bigelow and Schroeder's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine, 3rd edition. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London. 748 p. [details] additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [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] additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Sphyrna tiburo tiburo (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Sphyrna tiburo (Linnaeus, 1758) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, brackish, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Nemesis robusta (van Beneden, 1851) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Pandarus sinuatus Say, 1818 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Irodes gracilis (Heller, 1865) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (48 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (104 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (57 nucleotides; 47 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Found on both the East and West coast of North and South America. In the western Atlantic, they are found from southern Brazil to North Carolina, straying to Massachusetts Bay and Nantucket Sound. [details] Habitat: nektonic [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158517 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Sphyrna tiburo (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158517 on 2013-05-19 | |||||||||||
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