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Carcharhinus galapagensis
Description
□ Carcharhinus galapagensis (Snodgrass & Heller, 1905)
– Galapagos shark; Tubarão-dos-Galápos ②, ③ According to Ebert & Stehmann (2013), the species Carcharhinus obscurus is very closely related to this species (C. galapagensis) and they are difficult to distinguish from each other. Recent molecular studies suggest that these two species may in fact be a single one, with one of the two forms being found far from landmasses (C. galapagensis) and the other one (C. obscurus) occurring in association with continental shelves and upper slopes (G. Naylor, pers comm. in Ebert & Stehmann 2013). Studies are currently ongoing to determine the relationship between these two species.
Notes
Published as part of Carneiro, Miguel, Martins, Rogélia, Landi, Monica & Costa, Filipe O., 2014, Updated checklist of marine fishes (Chordata: Craniata) from Portugal and the proposed extension of the Portuguese continental shelf, pp. 1-73 in European Journal of Taxonomy 73 on page 11, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2014.73, http://zenodo.org/record/3866515
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Carcharhinidae
- Genus
- Carcharhinus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Carcharhiniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Snodgrass & Heller
- Species
- galapagensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Carcharhinus galapagensis (Snodgrass, 1905) sec. Carneiro, Martins, Landi & Costa, 2014
References
- Ebert D. A. & Stehmann M. F. W. 2013. Sharks, batoids, and chimaeras of the North Atlantic. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes no. 7, Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome.