Negaprion
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Taxonavigation
[edit]| Taxonavigation: Carcharhiniformes |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Carcharhinidae
Genus: Negaprion
Species:
N. acutidens –
N. brevirostris
Name
[edit]Negaprion Whitley, 1940
- Type species: Aprionodon acutidens queenslandicus Whitley, 1939
Etymology: From negatus (= deny); prion (= saw), referring to lack of saw-like serrations on teeth cusps. (From The ETYFish project)
Synonyms
[edit]- Hemigaleops Schultz & Welander in Schultz et al., 1953
- Mystidens Whitley, 1944
References
[edit]- Whitley, G. P., 1940: The fishes of Australia. Part I. The sharks, rays, devil-fish, and other primitive fishes of Australia and New Zealand. Royal Society of New South Wales, Zoological Handbook: 1-280. Reference page.
Links
[edit]- Negaprion and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
- Negaprion species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.