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Galeocerdo cuvier

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Description

Galeocerdo cuvier (Peron and Lesueur 1822) — Tiger Shark

Justification: Photograph of a large freshly caught St. Croix fish seen by us, and listed as "common" by Clavijo et al. (1980:4).

Distribution: Circumtropical, Compagno (1984b) WA (BD, FL, GOM, BA, GA, VI, LA, WC, nSA, sSA), EA, IWP, EP.

Notes

Published as part of Smith-Vaniz, William F. & Jelks, Howard L., 2014, Marine and inland fishes of St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands: an annotated checklist, pp. 1-120 in Zootaxa 3803 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3803.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4917823

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Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.3803.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/4917823 (URL)
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Biodiversity

Family
Carcharhinidae
Genus
Galeocerdo
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Carcharhiniformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Peron and Lesueur
Species
cuvier
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Galeocerdo cuvier (and, 1822) sec. Smith-Vaniz & Jelks, 2014

References

  • Clavijo, I. E., Yntema, J. A. & Ogden, J. C. (1980) An annotated list of the fishes of St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands. West Indies Lab, Special Publication, 2 nd Ed., 1 - 49.
  • Compagno, L. J. V. (1984 b) Sharks of the world: an annotated and illustrated catalogue of shark species known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis, No. 125, 4 (2), 251 - 655.