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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Chordata (phylum)  »  Elasmobranchii (class)  »  Carcharhiniformes (order)  »  Carcharhinidae (family)

CAAB Code: 37 018012 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority
:

Carcharhinus altimus   (Springer, 1950)

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes

Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) Fishmap images

Image by: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike
Rights: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO.
Family: 37 18 Carcharhinidae (Whaler Sharks) - show full list
Standard Name (AS5300): Bignose Shark
Common Names List: bignose shark
Organism Type: a whaler shark
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Shelf Demersal (40-200m)
Slope Demersal (200-2000m)
Parent Codes: 37 018904     Carcharhinus spp.
Previous Codes
(if any)
:
018012
Distribution map:
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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2008-11-19.
Occurrence locations [1] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records
Get expert distribution shapefile
Expected species depth range is from 80 to 430 m.

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:e03c4f9f-7f2e-45b1-9b57-fe5282fc5f13
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
FoA 2879
View at FoA
ITIS 160307
View at ITIS
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:105787
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2022-03-15
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
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