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Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos

Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos

grey reef shark(+1)·(Bleeker, 1856)

GBIF:155389560

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PROFILE

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Habitat

Marine

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REGIONS

Geographic Distribution(25)

Western Indian Ocean
Red Sea
South Africa
French Exclusive Economic Zone (Réunion)
Somali Exclusive Economic Zone
Madagascar
Madagascar
Madagascar
Madagascar
Djiboutian Exclusive Economic Zone(DJ)
Eritrean Exclusive Economic Zone(ER)
Kenyan Exclusive Economic Zone(KE)
Comorian Exclusive Economic Zone(KM)
Cargados Carajos Islands(MU)
Chagos Archipelago(MU)
Mauritian Exclusive Economic Zone(MU)
Mauritian Exclusive Economic Zone(MU)
Mauritian Exclusive Economic Zone(MU)
Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone(MZ)
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone(NZ)
Seychellois Exclusive Economic Zone(SC)
Seychellois Exclusive Economic Zone(SC)
Seychellois Exclusive Economic Zone(SC)
Seychellois Exclusive Economic Zone(SC)
Tanzanian Exclusive Economic Zone(TZ)

DATA

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Common names used for this species across different languages and regions. Available in 2 languages.

enggrey reef sharkengjpnオグロメジロザメjpn

Vernacular (common) names are the everyday names used for a species in different languages and regions. A single species may have dozens of common names worldwide. This taxon has names in 2 languages.

enggrey reef shark
eng
Source: Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
jpnオグロメジロザメ
jpn
Source: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL).

IDENTIFIERS

External Identifiers(1)

To GenBank (400 nucleotides; 431 proteins)

NCBI:txid263684

UNKNOWN

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References(4)

  • 1

    Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).

    basis of record
  • 2

    King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 431-554.

    additional source
  • 3

    Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp.

    additional source
  • 4

    Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1).

  • Source Information

    World Register of Marine Species

    World Register of Marine Species

    checklist

    An authoritative classification and catalogue of marine names. To obtain a full copy, please go to https://www.marinespecies.org/usersrequest.php

    WoRMS Editorial Board (2026). World Register of Marine Species. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.14284/170 accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-16.

    CC BYPublished 6/1/2026View dataset
    GBIF Usage Key
    155389560
    Dataset Key
    2d59e5db-57ad-41ff-97d6-11f5fb264527
    Origin
    source
    Backbone Key
    2418064
    Taxon ID
    urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217337
    Last Crawled
    6/16/2026
    Last Interpreted
    6/16/2026