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Heterodontus galeatus

Heterodontus galeatus

Crested Bull Shark(+15)·(Günther, 1870)

GBIF:299346099

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Marine

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REGIONS

Geographic Distribution(9)

South Pacific Ocean
Tasmania
uncertain
Queensland
FAO fishing area 71
East Australia
FAO fishing area 81
FAO fishing area 57
Yorke Peninsula
uncertain
New South Wales

DATA

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Common names used for this species across different languages and regions. Available in 11 languages.

engCrested Bull SharkengnldGekamde stierkophaainlddeuKamm-StierkopfhaideuitaSqualo testa di toro crestatoitaspaTiburón cabeza de toro crestadospa+11 more

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 11 languages.

engCrested Bull Shark
eng
nldGekamde stierkophaai
nld
deuKamm-Stierkopfhai
deu
itaSqualo testa di toro crestato
ita
spaTiburón cabeza de toro crestado
spa
porTubarão-focinho-de-porco-de-crista
por
engcrested Port Jackson shark
eng
engcrested bullhead shark
eng
engcrested horn shark
eng
engcrested shark
eng
spadormilón carenado
spa
frarequin dormeur à crête
fra
cesrůznozubec přilbovitý
ces
fintöyhtösarvihai
fin
rusШлемовидная бычья акула
rus
jpnオデコネコザメ
jpn

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Source Information

Catalogue of Life

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The Catalogue of Life is building a comprehensive catalogue of all known species on Earth. It offers two types of releases that reflect different levels of quality. The Base Release is curated and verified by experts specifically for COL. The eXtended Release (COL XR) builds on the Base Release 2026-05-11 (COL26.5) by programmatically integrating additional data sources. It integrates information from 61504 overlapping taxonomic and nomenclatural global, regional, national and management data sources (checklists) as well as originating from digitised literature available in Catalogue of Life's infrastructure ChecklistBank. New names and other data included in the COL XR are indicated with the XR icon. This release addresses several gaps of the Base Release and also enriches the existing names with information such as authorships, references, and vernacular names. It also adds molecular data, such as barcode index numbers or operational taxonomic units, to the Catalogue of Life. Higher taxonomy is being added only in selected groups with important gaps. Meanwhile, the information from the global data sources of the Catalogue of Life Base Release remains unmodified. This enhanced process is continuously evolving and undergoing quality control checks by COL editors and its community. Due to its programmatic nature as well as the taxonomic and nomenclatural differences among the data sources used, some issues may arise. We therefore caution the user, and invite everyone to help log data issues in the [COL’s data GitHub repository](https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/data/issues/new?template=xcol-content-feedback.md). We will do our best to resolve these issues as soon as possible.

Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Abreu, C., Acero P, A., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (2026-05-15 XR). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgxsq

CC BYPublished 5/15/2026View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
299346099
Dataset Key
7ddf754f-d193-4cc9-b351-99906754a03b
Origin
source
Backbone Key
5215665
Taxon ID
6LSRK
Last Crawled
6/16/2026
Last Interpreted
6/16/2026