Carcharhinidae
Creators: name: Golani, Daniel
name: Fricke, Ronald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Pisces
Carcharhiniformes
Carcharhinidae

description: CARCHARHINIDAE   Carcharhinus albimarginatus (Rüppell 1837)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Baranes 2013).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Rüppell 1837, as Carcharias albimarginatus), Sudan (Ninni 1931), Saudi Arabia (Spaet & Berumen 2015).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to Panama.   
 Carcharhinus altimus (Springer 1950)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Baranes & Ben-Tuvia 1978a), Israel (Baranes & Golani 1993).   
 Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Spaet & Berumen 2015).   
 General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.   
 Carcharhinus amboinensis (Müller & Henle 1839)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Saudi Arabia (Spaet & Berumen 2015).   
 General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, but not eastern Pacific.   
 Carcharhinus brevipinna (Müller & Henle 1839)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Gohar & Mazhar 1964, as Aprionodon brevipinna).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Gohar & Mazhar 1964, as Aprionodon brevipinna and Carcharhinus maculipinnis), Saudi Arabia (Spaet & Berumen 2015).   
 General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, but not in the eastern Pacific.   
 Remark: Not a Lessepsian migrant as previously reported by Ben-Tuvia (1966) (see Golani et al. 2002).   
 Carcharhinus falciformis (Müller & Henle 1839)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Gohar & Mazhar 1964, as Carcharhinus menisorrah), Saudi Arabia (Klausewitz 1959a, as Carcharhinus menisorrah; Spaet & Berumen 2015).   
 General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical seas.   
 Carcharhinus limbatus (Müller & Henle 1839)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Baranes 2013).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Carcharias ehrenbergi), Eritrea (Tortonese 1956), Saudi Arabia (Spaet et al. 2015).   
 General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.   
 Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey 1861)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Baranes 2013).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Gohar & Mazhar 1964).   
 General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.   
 Carcharhinus melanopterus (Quoy & Gaimard 1824)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Carcharias melanopterus).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Carcharias melanopterus), Sudan (Botros 1971, as Carcharias melanopterus), Eritrea (Pellegrin 1912, as Carcharias melanopterus), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Squalus carcharhias minor; see Fricke 2008; Gladstone 2002).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Hawaiian Islands and Pitcairn Group.   
 Remark: Not a Lessepsian migrant as previously reported by Steinitz (1967) (see Golani et al. 2002).   
 Carcharhinus obscurus (LeSueur 1818)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Baranes 2013).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Gohar & Mazhar 1964), Saudi Arabia (Roux-Estève & Fourmanoir 1955).   
 General distribution: Nearly circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.   
 Carcharhinus plumbeus (Nardo 1827)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Baranes & Ben-Tuvia 1978b), Israel (Baranes & Golani 1993), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Baranes & Ben-Tuvia 1978b; Baranes & Wendling 1981), Saudi Arabia (Spaet & Berumen 2015).   
 General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, possibly absent from eastern Pacific.   
 Carcharhinus sorrah (Müller & Henle 1839)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Baranes, 2013), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Lamna spallanzanii; Gohar & Mazhar 1964), Sudan (Bamber 1915, as Carcharias bleekeri), Saudi Arabia (Spaet et al. 2015).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Solomon Islands and northern Vanuatu.   
 Carcharhinus wheeleri Garrick 1982   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Debelius 2007, as Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos), Sudan (Krupp 1990, as Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos), Eritrea (Garrick 1982), Saudi Arabia (Garrick 1982; Spaet & Berumen 2015, as Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, western Indian Ocean: East Africa to Maldives and Chagos Archipelago.   
 Remark: This species is probably distrinct from C. amblyrhynchos (see Naylor et al. 2012); previous Red Sea records of Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (non Bleeker 1856) are probably based on this species.   
 Galeocerdo cuvier (Péron & Lesueur 1822)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Tortonese 1968, as Galeocerdo cuvieri), Jordan (Khalaf & Disi 1997, as Galeocerdo cuvieri).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Galeocerdo obtusus; Gohar & Mazhar 1964), Saudi Arabia (Spaet & Berumen 2015).   
 General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.   
 Loxodon macrorhinus Müller & Henle 1839   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Baranes, 2013).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Baranes, 2013).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871), Saudi Arabia (Spaet & Berumen 2015).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to New Guinea.   
 Negaprion acutidens (Rüppell 1837)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Kossmann & Räuber 1877, as Carcharias munzingeri; Baranes 2013).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Egypt (Botros 1971, as Carcharias acutidens).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Carcharias acutidens), Eritrea (Picaglia 1895, as Carcharias acutidens), Saudi Arabia (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Squalus carcharhias gersch; see Fricke 2008; Spaet & Berumen 2015); Yemen (Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775, as Squalus carcharhias gersch; see Fricke 2008).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Marshall Islands and Society Islands.   
 Rhizoprionodon acutus (Rüppell 1837)   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Klunzinger 1877, as Carcharias acutus).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871, as Carcharias acutus), Eritrea (Springer 1964), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1837, as Carcharias acutus).   
 General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas.   
 Scoliodon laticaudus Müller &Henle 1838   
 Gulf of Suez: Egypt (Gohar & Mazhar 1964, as Scoliodon palasorrah).   
 Gulf of Aqaba: ¯   
 Red Sea main basin: Eritrea (Tortonese 1935, as Scoliodon palasorrah).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Philippines.   
 Triaenodon obesus (Rüppell 1837)   
 Gulf of Suez: ¯   
 Gulf of Aqaba: Israel (Baranes 1973, 2013).   
 Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Klunzinger 1871), Saudi Arabia (Rüppell 1837, as Carcharias obesus).   
 General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-Pacific: East Africa east to Panama.
description: Published as part of Golani, Daniel & Fricke, Ronald, 2018, Checklist of the Red Sea Fishes with delineation of the Gulf of Suez, Gulf of Aqaba, endemism and Lessepsian migrants, pp. 1-215 in Zootaxa 4509 (1) on pages 10-12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4509.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607566