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Names and sources

Accepted Name Source
Carcharhinus obscurus (Lesueur, 1818)
  • AFD
Published in:Yearsley, G.K., Last, P.R. & Morris, G.B. 1997, "Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB): an upgraded and expanded species coding system for Australian fisheries databases", 15 pp. + appendices
Synonym Source
Eulamia macrura (Ramsay & Ogilby, 1887) synonym
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Published in:Stead, D.G. 1963, Sharks and Rays of Australian Seas, 211 pp. 63 figs, Angus & Robertson, Sydney p200
Eulamia ebilis (Whitley, 1944) synonym
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Published in:Stead, D.G. 1963, Sharks and Rays of Australian Seas, 211 pp. 63 figs, Angus & Robertson, Sydney p200
Galeolamna (Galeolamnoides) eblis Whitley, 1944 synonym
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Published in:Whitley, G.P. 1944, "New sharks and fishes from Western Australia", The Australian Zoologist, vol. 10, no. 3, 252-273 figs 1-6 p252, fig. 1
Galeolamna macrurus (Ramsay & Ogilby, 1887) synonym
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Published in:Whitley, G.P. 1940, The Fishes of Australia. Part 1. The sharks, rays, devil-fish, and other primitive fishes of Australia and New Zealand, 280 pp. 303 figs, Roy. Zool. Soc. N.S.W., Sydney p97
Carcharhinus macrurus (Ramsay & Ogilby, 1887) synonym
  • AFD
Published in:McCulloch, A.R. 1929, "A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part I", Memoirs of the Australian Museum, vol. 5, 1–144 p10
Carcharinus obscurus (Lesueur, 1818) synonym
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Published in:Garman, S. 1913, "The Plagiostomia (sharks, skates and rays)", Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, vol. 36, 1-528 pls 1-77 p130
Carcharias macrurus Ramsay & Ogilby, 1887 synonym
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Published in:Ramsay, E.P. & Ogilby, J.D. 1887, "On an undescribed shark from Port Jackson", Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, ser. 2, vol. 2, no. 1, 163-164 p163
Carcharias (Prionodon) obscurus (Lesueur, 1818) synonym
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Published in:Müller, J. & Henle, F.G.J. 1841, Systematische Beschreibung der Plagiostomen, pp. 103-200 pls, Veit & Co., Berlin p46
Squalus obscurus Lesueur, 1818 synonym
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Published in:Lesueur, C.A. 1818, "Descriptions of several new species of North American fishes", Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, vol. 1, no. 2, 222-235 fig. 9-10 p223, pl. 9
Indigenous Knowledge Name Source
Nodjam-Djedari Kwila
Common Name Source
Bronze Whaler Sharks standard
  • CAAB

Standard name from AS5300. Derived from original scientific name group Carcharhinus brachyurus & Carcharhinus obscurus.
Dusky Whaler preferred Australia Australia
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Black Whaler Australia Australia
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Black Whaler Shark Australia Australia
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Bronze Whaler Australia Australia
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Common Whaler Shark Australia Australia
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Dusky Shark Australia Australia
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Dusky Whaler Australia Australia
River Whaler Australia Australia
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Slender Whaler Shark Australia Australia
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Whaler Shark Australia Australia
  • AFD
Name Source
Carcharhinus obscurus (Lesueur, 1818) accepted
  • AFD
Identifier Source
https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/c471e0de-daff-40fa-b615-bf4f3bac2a17 Taxon Concept current
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http://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/c471e0de-daff-40fa-b615-bf4f3bac2a17 Taxon unknown
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https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/003cf142-68c4-403e-8a33-0f4f2108693d Scientific Name current
  • AFD
urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:c471e0de-daff-40fa-b615-bf4f3bac2a17 Taxon LSID unknown
  • AFD
https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/c471e0de-daff-40fa-b615-bf4f3bac2a17 Taxon current
  • AFD
37018003 CAAB Code current
  • CAAB

Classification

kingdom
ANIMALIA
phylum
CHORDATA
subphylum
VERTEBRATA
informal
Gnathostomata
informal
Pisces
class
CHONDRICHTHYES
subclass
ELASMOBRANCHII
order
CARCHARHINIFORMES
family
CARCHARHINIDAE
genus
Carcharhinus
species
Carcharhinus obscurus
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