CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

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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 018013 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority:

Carcharhinus sorrah   (Müller & Henle, 1839)

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: Spot-tail Shark
Common Names List: spot-tail shark
sorrah shark
blacktip shark
Standard (Commercial) Name(s): Blacktip Shark
Organism Type: a whaler shark
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Coastal (0-40m)
Pelagic, Shelf (0-200m)
Parent Codes: 37 018904     Carcharhinus spp.
Previous Codes
(if any):		 018013
Distribution map:
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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2014-08-11.
Occurrence locations [1000] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records Get expert distribution shapefile
Expected species depth range is from 0 to 80 m.
Scientific Name Notes:According to Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: "Evidently Müller & Henle alone were responsible for the description, so authorship is regarded as Müller & Henle (ex Valenciennes)".
Common/Standard Name Notes: "blacktip shark" is the marketing name for this species

Identifiers:
Australian Faunal Directory (AFD) urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:e3c35787-0a8a-4e45-9a2f-c3f0578ae2a9
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
Fishes of Australia 1955
Checked on: 2020-10-20
View at Fishes of Australia
ITIS (USA) 160391

View at ITIS
World Register of Marine Species urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217339
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2022-08-21
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
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