WoRMS taxon details
Carcharhinus cautus (Whitley, 1945)
271320 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:271320)
accepted
Species
Galeolamna greyi cauta Whitley, 1945 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Galeolamna greyi cauta Whitley, 1945) Whitley, G. P. (1945). New sharks and fishes from Western Australia. Part 2. <em>Australian Zoologist.</em> v. 11 (pt 1): 1-42, Pl. 1. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Carcharhinus cautus (Whitley, 1945). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=271320 on 2026-02-22
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Galeolamna greyi cauta Whitley, 1945) Whitley, G. P. (1945). New sharks and fishes from Western Australia. Part 2. <em>Australian Zoologist.</em> v. 11 (pt 1): 1-42, Pl. 1. [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] 
Other
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (8 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Galeolamna greyi cauta Whitley, 1945)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carcharhinus cautus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Galeolamna greyi cauta Whitley, 1945)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 7 proteins) (from synonym Galeolamna greyi cauta Whitley, 1945)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 7 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Carcharhinus cautus RAD100296-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Carcharhinus cautus RAD100296-001)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Galeolamna greyi cauta Whitley, 1945)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Carcharhinus cautus)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Galeolamna greyi cauta Whitley, 1945)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 7 proteins) (from synonym Galeolamna greyi cauta Whitley, 1945)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 7 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Carcharhinus cautus RAD100296-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Carcharhinus cautus RAD100296-001)
To ITIS
Unreviewed
Hosted externally
Hosted externally
