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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSqualus carcharias Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 299133

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorChordata (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVertebrata (Subphylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGnathostomata (Superclass) > Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorPisces (Superclass) > Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorElasmobranchii (Class) > Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorNeoselachii (Subclass) > Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorSelachii (Infraclass) > Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorSqualomorphi (Superorder) > Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorSqualiformes (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSqualidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSqualus (Genus)
Status Unaccepted: synonym, or anything that is not accepted unaccepted
Accepted name  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCarcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSqualus Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  original description 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]

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Subspecies Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSqualus carcharias minor Forsskål, 1775 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCarcharhinus melanopterus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (169 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo FishBase 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:299133
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2008-02-28 13:41:07Z  created  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2014). Squalus carcharias Linnaeus, 1758. In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2014) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=299133 on 2014-07-26
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