Carcharhinus is a genus of requiem sharks, the type genus of the family Carcharhinidae.

Species

• Blacknose shark, Carcharhinus acronotus (Poey, 1860)
• Silvertip shark, Carcharhinus albimarginatus (Rüppell, 1837)
• Bignose shark, Carcharhinus altimus (Springer, 1950)
• Graceful shark, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchoides (Whitley, 1934)
• Grey reef shark, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Bleeker, 1856)
• Pigeye shark or Java shark, Carcharhinus amboinensis (Müller & Henle, 1839)
• Borneo shark, Carcharhinus borneensis (Bleeker, 1859)
• Copper shark, or Bronze whaler Carcharhinus brachyurus (Günther, 1870)
• Spinner shark, Carcharhinus brevipinna (Müller & Henle, 1839)
• Nervous shark, Carcharhinus cautus (Whitley, 1945)
• Whitecheek shark, Carcharhinus dussumieri (Müller & Henle, 1839)
• Silky shark, Carcharhinus falciformis (Müller & Henle, 1839)
• Creek whaler, Carcharhinus fitzroyensis (Whitley, 1943)
• Galapagos shark, Carcharhinus galapagenisis (Snodgrass & Heller, 1905)
• Pondicherry shark, Carcharhinus hemiodon (Müller & Henle, 1839)
• Finetooth shark, Carcharhinus isodon (Müller & Henle, 1839)
• Smooth tooth blacktip shark, Carcharhinus leiodon Garrick, 1985
• Bull shark or Zambezi shark, Carcharhinus leucas (Müller & Henle, 1839)
• Blacktip shark, Carcharhinus limbatus (Müller & Henle, 1839)
• Oceanic whitetip shark, Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey, 1861)
• Hardnose shark, Carcharhinus macloti (Müller & Henle, 1839)
• Blacktip reef shark, Carcharhinus melanopterus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
• Dusky shark, Carcharhinus obscurus (Lesueur, 1818)
• Caribbean reef shark, Carcharhinus perezii (Poey, 1876)
• Sandbar shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus (Nardo, 1827)
• Smalltail shark, Carcharhinus porosus (Ranzani, 1840)
• Blackspot shark, Carcharhinus sealei (Pietschmann, 1913)
• Night shark, Carcharhinus signatus (Poey, 1868)
• Spottail shark, Carcharhinus sorrah (Müller and Henle, 1839)
• Australian blacktip shark, Carcharhinus tilstoni, (Whitley, 1950)

References

External links

• FishBase genus summary: Carcharhinus