WoRMS taxon details
Carcharias tricuspidatus Day, 1878
209411 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:209411)
accepted
Species
Carcharias cuspidatus Day, 1878 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Carcharius tricuspidatus Day, 1878 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Eugmophodus tricuspidatus (Day, 1878) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Eugomphodus tricuspidatus (Day, 1878) · unaccepted
Odontaspis tricuspidata (Day, 1878) · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Day, F. (1878). The fishes of India; being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Part 4: i-xx + 553-778, Pls. 139-195., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.55567 [details]
Description An inshore and offshore, littoral shark. Biology is not so much known if distinct from @C. taurus@.
Description An inshore and offshore, littoral shark. Biology is not so much known if distinct from @C. taurus@. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Carcharias tricuspidatus Day, 1878. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=209411 on 2026-07-09
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Nomenclature
original description
Day, F. (1878). The fishes of India; being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Part 4: i-xx + 553-778, Pls. 139-195., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.55567 [details]
original description (of Carcharius tricuspidatus Day, 1878) Day, F. (1878). The fishes of India; being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Part 4: i-xx + 553-778, Pls. 139-195., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.55567 [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
original description (of Carcharius tricuspidatus Day, 1878) Day, F. (1878). The fishes of India; being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Part 4: i-xx + 553-778, Pls. 139-195., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.55567 [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Description An inshore and offshore, littoral shark. Biology is not so much known if distinct from @C. taurus@. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | Indian sand tiger | [details] |
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Carcharias cuspidatus Day, 1878)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Carcharius tricuspidatus Day, 1878)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Eugomphodus tricuspidatus (Day, 1878))
To FishBase (from synonym Carcharius tricuspidatus Day, 1878)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Carcharias cuspidatus Day, 1878)
To FishBase (from synonym Odontaspis tricuspidata (Day, 1878))
To FishBase (from synonym Eugomphodus tricuspidatus (Day, 1878))
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Carcharius tricuspidatus Day, 1878)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Eugomphodus tricuspidatus (Day, 1878))
To FishBase (from synonym Carcharius tricuspidatus Day, 1878)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Carcharias cuspidatus Day, 1878)
To FishBase (from synonym Odontaspis tricuspidata (Day, 1878))
To FishBase (from synonym Eugomphodus tricuspidatus (Day, 1878))
To ITIS
Unreviewed
Image from synonym
