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Genus Carcharhinus Blainville, 1816

Black Tip Shark

Carcharhinus Blainville, H.M.D. de 1816. Prodrome d'une nouvelle distribution systématique du règne animal. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomathique de Paris 8: 113-124 [start page on volume "105" is a typing error] [121].
Type species:
Carcharias melanopterus Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 by subsequent designation, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1965. Opinion 723. Repeal of the ruling given in Opinion 47 together with the stabilization of the generic names Carcharhinus Blainville, 1816, Carcharodon Smith, 1838 and Odontaspis Agassiz, 1838 in their accustomed sense (Pisces). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 22(1): 32-36 [32].

Introduction

The Carcharhinus species currently recognised from Australia follows that of Last & Stevens (2009). Separation of some species is difficult without molecular data or vertebral counts. Consequently, many early records cannot be matched with certainty to currently recognised species. Records from Whitley (1940) and Stead (1963) are often difficult interpret. The terms black tip shark often refers to more than one species in early literature. Similarly the name bronze whaler is often applied to a number of species.

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

CARCHARHINIDAE: Carcharhinus dussumieri (Müller & Henle, 1839) [= Carcharias (Prionodon) dussumieri Müller & Henle, 1839] — White, W.T. 2012. A redescription of Carcharhinus dussumieri and C. sealei, with resurrection of C. coatesi and C. tjutjot as valid species (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhinidae). Zootaxa 3241: 1–34 [11] (restricted to the western Indian Ocean)

CARCHARHINIDAE: Carcharhinus hemiodon Valenciennes, 1839 — Paxton, J.R., Hoese, D.F., Allen, G.R. & Hanley, J.E. (eds) 1989. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Pisces: Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 7 665 pp. [75] (recorded previously as Hypoprion hemiodon, but records from Australia have not been substantiated)

CARCHARHINIDAE: Carcharhinus seali (Pietschmann, 1916) — Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 1994. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Canberra : CSIRO Australia 513 pp. 84 pls. [240] (C. sealei shown on map as in Australia by Compagno, L.J.V. & Niem, V.H. 1998. Family Carcharhinidae. pp. 1312-1360 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, V.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 2 pp. 687–1396, but no mention of Australia in text)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circumglobal.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP)

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Norfolk Island Province (21), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)