Species Glyphis glyphis (Müller & Henle, 1839)

Museums

Regional Maps

External Links

• Carcharias (Prionodon) glyphis Müller, J. & Henle, F.G.J. 1839. Systematische Beschreibung der Plagiostomen. Berlin : Veit & Co pp. 29-102 pls. [40, pl. 14].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB 5265, locality not specified, thought to be Indian Ocean aor South China Sea.

  Type locality references:

  Roberts, T.R. 2007. A new record for the speartooth carcharhinid shark Glyphis glyphis from Pulo Condor, South China Sea. Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society 54(2): 279–283.

Generic Combinations

• Glyphis glyphis (Müller & Henle, 1839). —
  Agassiz, J.L.R. 1843. Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles. Neuchâtel (Switz.) Vol. 3 pp. 157–390, atlas pls 1, 18, 22, 26a, 38, 40b–d, 45, 47. [243] (changed combination as type of genus)

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Glyphis sp. A. —
  Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 1994. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Canberra : CSIRO Australia 513 pp. 84 pls. [222, 259, 260] (in part)
  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. 2 687-1396 pp. [1318]

Introduction

Glyphis glyphis is listed nationally as Critically Endangered under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, as Vulnerable in the Northern Territory under the Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 2000, and in 2005 was placed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Red List as Endangered.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Adelaide and Alligator Rivers, NT and Wenlock and Bizant Rivers, QLD and probably others rivers of the Gulf of Carpentaria and eastern Queensland; little is known of its marine occurrence; tropical, west Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, estuary, freshwater, inshore.

General References

Berra, T.M. 2010. Clarification of field characters for three freshwater sharks and a photographic atlas of Glyphis glyphis and G. garricki from Adelaide River, Northern Territory, Australia. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 26: 109–114

Compagno, L.J.V., Dando, M. & Fowler, S. 2005. A Field Guide to the Sharks of the World. London : Collins 368 pp. [310] (and p. 311 as Glyphis sp. A)

Compagno, L.J.V., White, W.T. & Last, P.R. 2008. Glyphis garricki sp. nov., a new species of river shark (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae) from northern Australia and Papua New Guinea, with a redescription of Glyphis glyphis (Müller & Henle, 1839). pp. 203–226 in Last, P.R., White, W.T. & Pogonoski, J.J. (eds). Descriptions of new Australian chondrichthyans. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper No. 022: 1-358 [213]

Peverell, S.C., McPherson, G.R., Garrett, R.N. & Gribble, N.A. 2006. New records of the river shark Glyphis (Carcharhinidae) reported from Cape York Peninsula, northern Australia. Zootaxa 1233: 53–68 [53]

Common Name References

Compagno, L.J.V., Dando, M. & Fowler, S. 2005. A Field Guide to the Sharks of the World. London : Collins 368 pp. [311] (Bizant River Shark)

Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 2009. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Australia 2, 550 pp. [276] (Speartooth Shark)

History of changes