Carcharhinus
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Carcharhinus galapagensis
Translingual
Etymology
New Latin, from Latin carcharinus, from carchărus (“shark”) (from Ancient Greek καρχαρίας (karkharías)) + -inus.
Proper noun
Carcharhinus m
- A taxonomic genus within the family Carcharhinidae – typical requiem sharks.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Chondrichthyes - superclass; Elasmobranchii - class; Selachimorpha - superorder; Carcharhiniformes - order; Carcharhinidae - family
Hyponyms
- (genus): Carcharhinus melanopterus (blacktip reef shark) - type species; Carcharhinus acronotus (blacknose shark), Carcharhinus albimarginatus (silvertip shark), Carcharhinus altimus (bignose shark), Carcharhinus amblyrhynchoides (graceful shark), Carcharhinus amblyrhyncos (grey reef shark), Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (grey reef shark), Carcharhinus amboinensis (pigeye shark), Carcharhinus borneensis (Borneo shark), Carcharhinus brachyurus (bronze whaler, copper shark, narrowtooth shark), Carcharhinus brevipinna (spinner shark), Carcharhinus cautus (nervous shark), Carcharhinus coatesi, Carcharhinus dussumieri (whitecheek shark), Carcharhinus falciformis (silky shark), Carcharhinus fitzroyensis (creek whaler), Carcharhinus galapagenisis (Galapagos shark), Carcharhinus hemiodon (Pondicherry shark), Carcharhinus isodon (finetooth shark), Carcharhinus leiodon (smoothtooth blacktip shark), Carcharhinus leucas (bull shark), Carcharhinus limbatus (blacktip shark), Carcharhinus longimanus (oceanic whitetip shark), Carcharhinus macloti (hardnose shark), Carcharhinus macrops, Carcharhinus menisorrah (syn. of Carcharhinus falciformis), Carcharhinus obscurus (dusky shark), Carcharhinus perezii (Caribbean reef shark), Carcharhinus plumbeus (sandbar shark), Carcharhinus porosus (smalltail shark), Carcharhinus sealei (blackspot shark), Carcharhinus signatus (night shark), Carcharhinus sorrah (spottail shark), Carcharhinus tilstoni (Australian blacktip shark), Carcharhinus tjutjot (Indonesian whaler shark) - other species
References
Carcharhinus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Carcharhinus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Carcharhinus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
