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Carcharias taurus Rafinesque, 1810

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Rafinesque, Constantine S. 1810. Caratteri di alcuni nuovi generi e nuove specie di animali e piante della Sicilia, con varie osservazioni sopra i medisimi. Sanfilippo, Palermo.: 1-105, pls. 1-20.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
class
Elasmobranchii
order
Lamniformes
family
Odontaspididae
genus
Carcharias
species
Carcharias taurus

Name

Synonyms
Carcharhinus taurus (Rafinesque, 1810)
Carcharias arenarias Ogilby, 1911
Carcharias arenarius Ogilby, 1911
Carcharias griseus Ayres, 1843
Carcharias littoralis (Lesueur, 1818)
Carcharias owstoni Garman, 1913
Carcharias platensis (Lahille, 1928)
Charcharias taurus Rafinesque, 1810
Eugmophodus taurus (Rafinesque, 1810)
Eugomphodus griseus (Ayres, 1843)
Eugomphodus taurus (Rafinesque, 1810)
Lamna ecarinata Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1899
Odontaspis americanus (Mitchill, 1815)
Odontaspis arenarius (Ogilby, 1911)
Odontaspis cinerea Ramsay, 1880
Odontaspis platensis Lahille, 1928
Odontaspis taurus (Rafinesque, 1810)
Squalus americanus Mitchill, 1815
Squalus littoralis Lesueur, 1818
Squalus lixa Larrañaga, 1923
Homonyms
Carcharias taurus Rafinesque, 1810
Common names
Bacota in Spanish
Blue Nurse Shark in English
Blue-nurse Sand Tiger in English
Dogfish Shark in English
Gray Nurse Shark in English
Grey Nurse in English
Grey Nurse Shark in English
Grey Nurse Shark in English
Grey nurse in English
Greynurse Shark in English
Ground Shark in English
Hietahai in Finnish
Indian Sand Tiger in English
Kelb il-bahar in Maltese
Nuss Shark in English
Owston’s sand shark in English
Oxhaj in Swedish
Peshkagen i eger in Albanian
Peshkaqen i eger in Albanian
Pez toro in Spanish
Ragged Tooth Shark in English
Requin in French
Requin taureau in French
Requin taureau in French
Sand Shark in English
Sand Tiger in English
Sand Tiger Shark in English
Sand shark in English
Sand tiger shark in English
Sand tiger shark in English
Sandhai in German
Sandhaj in Swedish
Sandtiger in German
Sandtiger in German
Sandtiger Shark in English
Sandtigerhai in German
Sandtigerhai in German
Shovel-nosed Shark in English
Slender-tooth Shark in English
Slender-tooth shark in English
Smalltooth Sand Tiger in English
Spotted Ragged-tooth in English
Spotted Ragged-tooth Shark in English
Spotted Raggedtooth in English
Spotted Raggedtooth Shark in English
Spotted Sand Tiger Shark in English
Squalo toro in Italian
Tawrosz in Polish
Tawru in Maltese
Tiburón sarda in Spanish

Bibliographic References

  1. Branstetter, Steven / Collette, Bruce B., and Grace Klein-MacPhee, eds., 2002: Sand Tiger Sharks: Family Odontaspididae. Bigelow and Schroeder's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine, Third Edition. 25-27.
  2. Claro, Rodolfo, Kenyon C. Lindeman, and Lynne R. Parenti, 2001: null. Ecology of the Marine Fishes of Cuba. 253.
  3. Collette, B. B., ; Klein-MacPhee, G. (2002). Bigelow and Schroeder's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine. <em>Smithsonian Institution Press.</em> 1-748.
  4. Compagno, L.J.V. (1984). FAO Species Catalogue No. 4. Sharks of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of shark species known to date. Part 1. Hexanchiformes to Lamniformes. FAO Fish. Synop. (125) Vol 4, Part 1. 246 pp. FAO, Rome.
  5. Compagno, Leonard J. V., 2001: Sharks of the World: An annotated and illustrated catalogue of shark species known to date, vol. 2: Bullhead, mackerel and carpet sharks (Heterodontiformes, Lamniformes and Orectolobiformes). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes, no. 1, vol. 2. viii + 269.
  6. Eschmeyer, William N., ed., 1998: Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. 2905.
  7. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024).
  8. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 1459 Carcharias Rafinesque, 1810 (Chondrichthyes, Lamniformes): conserved.Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 44(3), 216-217 (1987)
  9. Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp.
  10. 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). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
  11. 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.
  12. Murdy, Edward O., Ray S. Birdsong, and John A. Musick, 1997: null. Fishes of Chesapeake Bay. xi + 324.
  13. Nelson, Joseph S., Edwin J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L. T. Findley, C. R. Gilbert, et al., eds., 2004: Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Sixth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 29. ix + 386.
  14. Rafinesque, C. S. (1810). Caratteri di alcuni nuovi generi e nuove specie di animali e piante della sicilia, con varie osservazioni sopra i medisimi. <em>Per le stampe di Sanfilippo: Palermo, Italy.</em> Part 1 involves fishes, pp. [i-iv] 3-69 [70 blank], Part 2 with slightly different title, pp. ia-iva + 71-105 [106 blank]). Pls. 1-20.
  15. van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 357-374
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