Carcharias
Carcharias Temporal range: Late Cretaceous to present
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Sand tiger shark, (Carcharias taurus), the last extant member of the genus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Subdivision: | Selachimorpha |
Order: | Lamniformes |
Family: | Odontaspididae |
Genus: | Carcharias Rafinesque, 1810 |
Carcharias is a
Description
Carcharias are 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) long on average. The maximum weight of the shark is 158.8 kg (350 lb).[1]
Differentiating species of sharks is usually done by locating and measuring their fins. The tail is one third of the entire body size. The second
Diet
Carcharias species are
Habitat
Sand tiger sharks are found in the
Species
With the Greek name Carcharias literally translating to “shark”, many presently extant species have been placed into this genus before being moved to different genera and orders.
Extant species
- Carcharias taurus Rafinesque, 1810 (sand tiger shark)
Species previously described in this genus
- Negaprion acutidens)[4]
- Carcharhinus sealei)[5]
- Carcharhinus amboinensis)[6]
- Carcharhinus brevipinna)[7]
- Carcharhinus falciformis)[8]
- Negaprion brevirostris)[9]
- Carcharhinus hemiodon)[10]
- Carcharhinus sealei)[11]
Extinct species
Extinct species within this genus lived from the Cretaceous period to the Quaternary period (from 99.7 to 0.012 Ma). Fossils have been found all over the world, especially in the Miocene and Oligocene sediments of Europe, the United States and Australia, in the Eocene of Egypt, Europe and the United States, as well as in the Cretaceous of Australia, Canada, the United States, Europe and Africa.[12] Species from the fossil record include:[12]
Cretaceous species
- Carcharias tenuiplicatus
- Carcharias holmdelensis Maastrichtian
- Carcharias samhammeri Late Cretaceous
- Carcharias heathi Late Cretaceous
Paleogene species
- Carcharias acutissima (Agassiz, 1844) - Late Eocene
- Carcharias atlasi
- Carcharias hopei (Agassiz, 1843) - Late Palaeocene - Eocene
- Carcharias koerti (Stromer, 1905)
- Carcharias robusta? (Leriche, 1921) - Early Eocene
- Carcharias teretidens - maybe placed into its own genus as Sylvestrilamia teretidens[13]
- Carcharias teretidens (White, 1931), - Late Palaeocene - Eocene
- Carcharias tingitana (Arambourg, 1952)
- Carcharias vincenti (Woodward, 1899)
- Carcharias whitei (Arambourg, 1952) - Paleocene
Neogene
- Carcharias acutissima (Agassiz, 1843), Oligocene - Pliocene
- Carcharias reticulata (Probst, 1879), Oligocene - Miocene
- Carcharias cuspidata (Agassiz, 1843), Oligocene - Miocene
- Carcharias taurusRafinesque, 1810, Pliocene - Present
- Carcharias cuspidata (Agassiz, 1843), Pliocene - Miocene
- Carcharias sp. - unidentified but maybe similar to the Carcharias contortidens as described by Agassiz in 1843, from the Miocene.
- Carcharias reticulata (Kent 1994) maybe classified as Odontaspis acutissma (Agassiz 1843) from the Miocene.
References
- ^ "Carcharias taurus, Sand tiger shark : fisheries, gamefish". www.fishbase.de.
- ^ Garman. "sand Shark".
- ^ a b "Sand Tiger Sharks, Carcharias taurus". Archived from the original on 2013-03-22. Retrieved 2012-05-01.
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Negaprion acutidens (Rüppell, 1837)". www.marinespecies.org.
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Carcharias borneensis Seale, 1910". www.marinespecies.org.
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Carcharias brachyrhynchos Bleeker, 1859". www.marinespecies.org.
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Carcharias brevipinna Müller & Henle, 1839". www.marinespecies.org.
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Carcharias falciformis Müller & Henle, 1839". www.marinespecies.org.
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Carcharias fronto Jordan & Gilbert, 1882". www.marinespecies.org.
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Carcharias hemiodon Müller & Henle, 1839". www.marinespecies.org.
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Carcharias sealei Pietschmann, 1913". www.marinespecies.org.
- ^ a b "Fossilworks: Carcharias". fossilworks.org.
- ^ a b c d "elasmo.com". www.elasmo.com.
- ^ "Shark teeth references Accessed 2008/07/07". Archived from the original on May 21, 2008.
External links
- Media related to Carcharias at Wikimedia Commons