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Distributions and Habitats: Carcharhinidae

FAMILY Carcharhinidae Jordan & Evermann, 1896 - requiem

GENUS Blainville, 1816 - requiem sharks

Species Carcharhinus acarenatus Moreno & Hoyos, 1983 - Moroccan Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Morocco; Mediterranean Sea. Habitat: brackish, marine.

Species Carcharhinus acronotus (Poey, 1860) - Distribution: Western Atlantic: North Carolina (U.S.A.) to southern Brazil. Habitat: marine.

Species Carcharhinus albimarginatus (Rüppell, 1837) - Distribution: Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa, Seychelles, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Hawaiian Islands and Panama, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to northern Australia, New Caledonia and Tuamotu Archipelago. Habitat: marine.

Species Carcharhinus altimus (Springer, 1950) - Distribution: Circumglobal, with patchy records in warm seas, including Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea, Hawaiian Islands. Habitat: marine.

Species Carcharhinus amblyrhynchoides (Whitley, 1934) - Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Gulf of Aden east to Philippines an south to northern Australia. Habitat: marine.

Species Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Bleeker, 1856) - Distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Seychelles, Madagascar and western Mascarenes east to Marquesas Islands and Easter Island, north to South China Sea and Hawaiian Islands, south to Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.

Species Carcharhinus amboinensis (Müller & Henle, 1839) - Java shark, Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and subtropical seas (including Madagascar, Mascarenes), but except eastern Pacific. Habitat: brackish, marine.

Species Carcharhinus borneensis (Bleeker, 1858) - Borneo Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Sarawak, Borneo; doubtful southern China and around Java, possibly Philippines. Habitat: marine

Species Carcharhinus brachyurus (Günther, 1870) - Distribution: Nearly circumblobal. Habitat: brackish, marine.

Species Carcharhinus brevipinna (Müller & Henle, 1839) - great Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical through warm temperate seas (including Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea), but not in the eastern Pacific. Habitat: marine.

Species Carcharhinus cautus (Whitley, 1945) - Distribution: Southeastern Indian Ocan and southwestern Pacific: norhtern and western Australia, Solomon Islands. Habitat: marine

Species Carcharhinus cerdale Gilbert, in Jordan & Evermann, 1898 - Pacific small-tail shark Distribution: Eastern Pacific. Habitat: brackish, marine.

Species Carcharhinus coatesi (Whitley, 1939) - Coates' Distribution: Northern Australia (Shark Bay, Western Australia to Fraser Island, Queensland); possibly off New Guinea. Habitat: marine.

Species Carcharhinus dussumieri (Muller & Henle, 1839) - whitecheek shark Distribution: Indian Ocean: Persian Gulf east to India; full range not known [ref. 31843]; Gulf of Thailand. Habitat: marine. Species Carcharhinus falciformis (Müller & Henle, 1839) - ridgeback shark, Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical seas (including Red Sea and Hawaiian Islands). Habitat: marine.

Species Carcharhinus fitzroyensis (Whitley, 1943) - creek whaler Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Kimberleys (Western Australia), Northern Territory and northern Queensland (Australia). Habitat: brackish, marine.

Species Carcharhinus galapagensis (Snodgrass & Heller, 1905) - Distribution: Worldwide in tropical waters, especially around offshore islands (including Hawaiian Islands). Habitat: marine.

Species Carcharhinus hemiodon (Muller & Henle, 1839) - Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: southern Iran east to Papua New Guinea, north to South China Sea, south to northern Queensland (Australia). Habitat: marine.

Species Carcharhinus humani White & Weigmann, 2014 - Human's shark Distribution: Western Indian Ocean: off Kuwait, Mozambique and South Africa, Habitat: marine.

Species Carcharhinus isodon (Müller & Henle, 1839) - Distribution: Western Atlantic: North Carolina (U.S.A.) to Gulf of Mexico and Cuba, and São Paulo to Santa Catarina, Brazil; eastern Atlantic: Senegal and Guinea-Bissau. Habitat: marine.

Species Carcharhinus leiodon (Garrick, 1985) - smoothtooth blacktip Distribution: Western Indian Ocean: Gulf of Aden. Habitat: marine.

Species Carcharhinus leucas (Müller & Henle, 1839) - Distribution: Cosmopolitan in tropical seas (enters freshwater rivers and lakes). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

Species Carcharhinus limbatus (Müller & Henle, 1839) - Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical through warm temperate seas (including Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea and Hawaiian Islands). Habitat: brackish, marine.

Species Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey, 1861) - Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and subtropical seas (including Red Sea and Hawaiian Islands), straying into temperate waters including North Sea. Habitat: marine.

Species Carcharhinus macloti (Müller & Henle, 1839) - Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Papua New Guinea, north to Taiwan, south to Western Australia and Queensland (Australia). Habitat: marine.

Species Carcharhinus melanopterus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) - blacktip reef shark Distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, South Africa, Seychelles, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Hawaiian Islands and Pitcairn Group north to Taiwan, south to Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. [No longer considered as present in the Mediterranean Sea -- (Fricke et al. 2007:14 [ref. 29533])]. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

Species Carcharhinus obscurus (Lesueur, 1818) - Distribution: Nearly worldwide, tropical and subtropical seas (including western Mediterranean Sea). Habitat: brackish, marine.

Species Carcharhinus perezii (Poey, 1876) - Distribution: Western North Atlantic: Florida (U.S.A.) Bahamas, Gulf of Mexico to Brazil; ?western Pacific: Colombia. Habitat: marine.

Species Carcharhinus plumbeus (Nardo, 1827) - brown shark, Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical through warm temperate seas (including Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Madagascar, Mascarenes, New Caledonia, Hawaiian Islands); possibly absent from eastern Pacific. Habitat: brackish, marine. Species Carcharhinus porosus (Ranzani, 1839) - smalltail shark Distribution: Western North Atlantic: Gulf of Mexico to southern Brazil. Not Pacific when C. cerdale is treated as valid.

Habitat: brackish, marine.

Species Carcharhinus sealei (Pietschmann, 1913) - blackspot shark, Caribbean reef shark Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Seychelles and Mauritius (Mascarenes), southwestern Indian Ocean. (Mascarenes) east to Philippines and New Guinea, north to South China Sea, south to northern Australia. Distribution west of the Indo-Malay Peninsula needs validating [ref. 31843]. Habitat: marine.

Species Carcharhinus signatus (Poey, 1868) - Distribution: Western Atlantic: Delaware to Florida, Bahamas and Cuba; southern Brazil to northern Argentina; eastern Atlantic: Senegal to Angola. Habitat: marine.

Species Carcharhinus sorrah (Muller & Henle, 1839) - spottail shark Distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, South Africa, Seychelles, Madagascar and western Mascarenes east to Solomon Islands and northern Vanuatu, north to Taiwan, south to New South Wales (Australia) and New Caledonia. Habitat: brackish, marine.

Species Carcharhinus tilstoni (Whitley, 1950) - Australian blacktip shark Distribution: Indo-Pacific: Australia and southern Indonesia. Habitat: brackish, marine.

Species Carcharhinus tjutjot (Bleeker, 1852) - tjutjot shark Distribution: Taiwan area and Borneo and Java Indonesia; replaced by coaesi in New Guinea and Australia [ref. 31843]. Habitat: marine.

GENUS Galeocerdo Müller & Henle, 1837 - tiger sharks

Species Galeocerdo cuvier (Péron & Lesueur, in Lesueur, 1822) - leopard shark, Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical through warm temperate seas (including Red Sea and Hawaiian Islands). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

GENUS Glyphis Agassiz, 1843 - river sharks

Species Glyphis gangeticus (Müller & Henle, 1839) - Distribution: Pakistan and India. Habitat: brackish, marine.

Species Glyphis garricki Compagno et al., 2008 - Distribution: Northern Australia and New Guinea. Habitat: brackish. Species Glyphis glyphis (Müller & Henle, 1839) - Distribution: Northern Australia and New Guinea. Habitat: brackish, marine.

GENUS Isogomphodon Gill, 1862 - daggernose sharks

Species Isogomphodon oxyrhynchus (Müller & Henle, 1839) - Distribution: Central western Atlantic: southern Caribbean Sea to Brazil. Habitat: brackish, marine.

GENUS Gill, 1862 - broadfin sharks

Species Lamiopsis temminckii (Müller & Henle, 1839) - Distribution: Indo-West Pacific. Habitat: brackish, marine.

Species Lamiopsis tephrodes (Fowler, 1905) - Borneo broadfin shark Distribution: Malaysia, Borneo and Thailand; possibly more widespread in the Indo-Malay Archipelago. Habitat: brackish, marine.

GENUS Loxodon Müller & Henle, 1838 - sliteye sharks Species Loxodon macrorhinus Müller & Henle, 1839 - Distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, South Africa, Seychelles, Madagascar and western Mascarenes east to New Guinea, north to southern Japan, south to northern New South Wales (Australia). Habitat: marine.

GENUS Nasolamia Compagno & Garrick, 1983 - requiem sharks

Species Nasolamia velox (Gilbert, 1898) - , Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Baja California tp Peru. Habitat: marine.

GENUS Whitley, 1940 - lemon sharks

Species Negaprion acutidens (Rüppell, 1837) - sicklefin Distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, South Africa, Seychelles, Madagascar and Mauritius (Mascarenes) east to Marshall Islands and Society Islands, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. Habitat: brackish, marine.

Species Negaprion brevirostris (Poey, 1868) - lemon shark Distribution: Atlantic and eastern Pacific. Habitat: brackish, marine.

Species Negaprion fronto (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882) - Mazatlan lemon shark Distribution: Mexico. Habitat: brackish, marine.

GENUS Prionace Cantor, 1849 - blue sharks

Species Prionace glauca (Linnaeus, 1758) - Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical through temperate seas (including Mediterranean Sea, western Baltic Sea, North Sea, and Hawaiian Islands). Habitat: marine.

GENUS Whitley, 1929 - sharpnose sharks

Species Rhizoprionodon acutus (Rüppell, 1837) - grey dog shark Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical through warm temperate seas (including Red Sea). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

Species Rhizoprionodon lalandii (Müller & Henle, 1839) - Brazilian sharpnose shark Distribution: Western Atlantic, from Panama to southern Brazil. Habitat: marine. Species Rhizoprionodon longurio (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882) - Distribution: Eastern Pacific: California (U.S.A.) to Peru. Habitat: marine.

Species Rhizoprionodon oligolinx Springer, 1964 - grey sharpnose shark Distribution: Indo-West Pacific. Habitat: marine.

Species Rhizoprionodon porosus (Poey, 1861) - Caribbean sharpnose shark Distribution: Western Atlantic. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

Species Rhizoprionodon taylori (Ogilby, 1915) - Australian sharpnose shark Distribution: Papua New Guinea and Australia. Habitat: marine.

Species Rhizoprionodon terraenovae (Richardson, 1837) - Distribution: Western Atlantic: Canada to Yucatan, Mexico. Habitat: brackish, marine.

GENUS Müller & Henle, 1837 - spadenose sharks Species Scoliodon intermedius Garman, 1913 - intermediate Distribution: East Indies. Habitat: marine.

Species Scoliodon laticaudus Müller & Henle, 1838 - spadenose shark, Indian dog shark Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: northeasern Africa to Japan. Habitat: brackish, marine.

Species Scoliodon macrorhynchos (Bleeker, 1852) - Pacific spadenose shark Distribution: Western central Pacific: China and Japan south to western Indonesia. Habitat: brackish, marine.

GENUS Triaenodon Müller & Henle, 1837 - whitetip reef sharks

Species Triaenodon obesus (Rüppell, 1837) - blunt-head shark, Distribution: Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa, South Africa, Seychelles, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Hawaiian Islands and Panama, north to Ryukyu Islands and Ogasawara Islands, south to New South Wales (Australia), New Caledonia and Austral Islands. Habitat: marine.