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Carcharhinus brevipinna (Müller & Henle, 1839)

105788  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:105788)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Carcharias brevipinna Valenciennes, 1839) Müller, J.; Henle, F. G. J. (1838-1841). Systematische Beschreibung der Plagiostomen. <em>Veit und Comp., Berlin.</em> i-xxii + 1-200, 60 pls. [Pp. 1-28 published in 1838, reset pp. 27-28, 29-102 in 1839, i-xxii + 103-200 in 1841. Please note the different authors responsible for some species.]. [details] 
Description Found on the continental and insular shelves, ranging close inshore and offshore. Feeds on small fishes, cuttlefish, squid,...  
Description Found on the continental and insular shelves, ranging close inshore and offshore. Feeds on small fishes, cuttlefish, squid, and octopi. Viviparous (with a yolk-sac placenta); litters of 2 to 15 pups, 46 to 80 cm at birth. Forms schools. Highly migratory off Florida and Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. Utilized fresh and dried salted for human consumption. Also valuable for hides and fins, and liver for oil. [details]

Distribution Western Atlantic: North Carolina, USA to northern Gulf of Mexico and the Bahamas, then from southern Brazil to northern...  
Distribution Western Atlantic: North Carolina, USA to northern Gulf of Mexico and the Bahamas, then from southern Brazil to northern Argentina. Reported from Cuba  [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Carcharhinus brevipinna (Müller & Henle, 1839). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=105788 on 2024-12-08
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original description (of Carcharias brevipinna Valenciennes, 1839) Müller, J.; Henle, F. G. J. (1838-1841). Systematische Beschreibung der Plagiostomen. <em>Veit und Comp., Berlin.</em> i-xxii + 1-200, 60 pls. [Pp. 1-28 published in 1838, reset pp. 27-28, 29-102 in 1839, i-xxii + 103-200 in 1841. Please note the different authors responsible for some species.]. [details] 

original description (of Longmania calamaria Whitley, 1944) Whitley, G. P. (1944). New sharks and fishes from Western Australia. <em>Australian Zoologist.</em> 10 (3): 252-273. [details] 

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] 

context source (HKRMS) Sin, Y. T. (2009). Age, growth and reproductive biology of whitespotted bamboo shark (Chiloscyllium plagiosum) from Hong Kong and adjacent waters. Mphil thesis. The University of Hong Kong. [details] 

basis of record 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 (look up in IMIS) [details] 

additional source Robins, C. R.; Ray, G. C.; Douglass, J.; Freund, R. (1986). A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. <em>Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston.</em> 1-354. [details] 

additional source 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. [details] 

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2024). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details] 

ecology source 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). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] OpenAccess publication
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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Description Found on the continental and insular shelves, ranging close inshore and offshore. Feeds on small fishes, cuttlefish, squid, and octopi. Viviparous (with a yolk-sac placenta); litters of 2 to 15 pups, 46 to 80 cm at birth. Forms schools. Highly migratory off Florida and Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. Utilized fresh and dried salted for human consumption. Also valuable for hides and fins, and liver for oil. [details]

Distribution Western Atlantic: North Carolina, USA to northern Gulf of Mexico and the Bahamas, then from southern Brazil to northern Argentina. Reported from Cuba  [details]

Habitat nektonic [details]
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LanguageName 
English spinner shark  [details]
German SpinnerhaiLangnasenhaigroßer Schwarzspitzenhai  [details]
Hebrew כריש קצר-גף  [details]
Japanese ハナザメ  [details]
Lithuanian trumpapelekis pilkasis ryklys  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Βραχύπτερος καρχαρίνος  [details]
Spanish tiburón currotiburón aleta negrajaquetón picudo  [details]
Turkish sivri camgözsivri camgoz  [details]
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