Published May 29, 2014 | Version v1
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Negaprion brevirostris

Description

Negaprion brevirostris (Poey 1868) Lemon Shark

Justification: Listed as "occasional" by Clavijo et al. (1980:4).

Distribution: Compagno (1984b) WA (BD, FL, GOM, BA, GA, VI, LA, WC, nSA, sSA), EA, 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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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Carcharhinidae
Genus
Negaprion
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Carcharhiniformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Poey
Species
brevirostris
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Negaprion brevirostris (Poey, 1868) 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.