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View Mode View All Pictures Species Rhizoprionodon acutus (Rüppell 1837)    Rhizoprionodon acutus was originally described as Carcharias acutus by Rüppell in 1837. It belongs to the family Carcharhinidae. It is commonly known as Milk shark but has many other common names such as Milk shark in Australia, Hiragashira in Japan, Milk shark in Papua New Guinea, Kitil-kitil in Philippines, Melkhaai in South Africa, Milkshark in South Africa. more common names It is found in Fresh, Brackish and Salt water and its distribution is Circumglobal in tropical through warm temperate seas (including Red Sea).   Species Species   Higher Taxa Higher Taxa   Original Original   Subspecies Subspecies   Current Current   General General   Name History Name History   Related Pages Related Pages   Species of this Genus Species of this Genus   Species   acutus AuthorWI   Rüppell [W. P. E. S.] AuthorNI   Rüppell Qualification   --- Year   1837 Status   Valid Class   Chondrichthyes Chondrichthyes Order   Carcharhiniformes Carcharhiniformes Family   Carcharhinidae Subfamily   --- --- Genus   Rhizoprionodon Subgenus   --- Class   Chondrichthyes Order   Carcharhiniformes Family   Carcharhinidae Genus   Rhizoprionodon Original Name   Carcharias         Taxon Name   acutus Original Combination   Carcharias acutus Original Genus   Carcharias Original Genus Species   Carcharias acutus OriginalSubGenus   Carcharias Original Author   Rüppell Original AuthorWI   Rüppell [W. P. E. S.] Original Qualification   --- Original Year   1837 Original Family   Odontaspididae Original SubFamily   --- Original Level   species Type Locality   Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Red Sea. Type Catalogue   Type catalog and lectotype designation: Klausewitz 1960:292 [ref. 21330]. Primary Code   --- Primary Type   SMF 2783 Page   65 Illustrations   Pl. 18 (fig. 4) SubSpecies AuthorWI --- Qualification SS --- Original QualificationSS --- Current Subspecies AuthorWI --- Current Genus Species Rhizoprionodon acutus Current Species   acutus Current Genus Rhizoprionodon Current AuthorWI Hemprich [F. W.] & Ehrenberg [C. G.] Current AuthorNI   Hemprich & Ehrenberg Current Year   1837 Current Family Carcharhinidae Current Subfamily --- --- Habitat demersal         Water Fresh, Brackish and Salt water Depth Range From 1 to 200 meters.     Distribution Circumglobal in tropical through warm temperate seas (including Red Sea). Current Summary   Valid as Rhizoprionodon acutus  (Rüppell 1837). Carcharhinidae.   Name History   • Listed in the synonymy of Loxodon macrorhinus  Müller & Henle 1839 -- (Compagno & Niem 1998:1351 [ref. 23787] presumeably on a misidentified paralectotype, also Bonfil & Abdallah 2004:34 [ref. 27735]). • Valid as Rhizoprionodon acutus  (Rüppell 1837) -- (Compagno 1973:31 [ref. 7163], Branstetter in Whitehead et al. 1984:114 [ref. 13675], Dor 1984:9 [ref. 29757], Compagno 1984:525 [ref. 6846], Nakaya in Masuda et al. 1984:5 [ref. 6441], Bass et al. 1986:85 [ref. 5638], Allen & Swainston 1988:24 [ref. 25477], Paxton et al. 1989:83 [ref. 12442], Springer 1990:102 [ref. 19320], Talwar & Jhingran 1991:23 [ref. 20764], Last & Stevens 1994:265 [ref. 23873], Goren & Dor 1994:3 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:36 [ref. 22896], Rainboth 1996:51 [ref. 22772], Allen 1997:44 [ref. 23977], Compagno & Niem 1998:1354 [ref. 23787], Fricke 1999:23 [ref. 24106], Mishra & Srinivasan 1999:233 [ref. 24754], Afonso et al. 1999:68 [ref. 25466], Johnson 1999:720 [ref. 25471], Compagno 1999:484 [ref. 25589], Nakabo 2000:136 [ref. 25086], Compagno in Randall & Lim 2000:580 [ref. 25122], Hutchins 2001:14 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:136 [ref. 26001], Youn 2002:53, 474 [ref. 26218], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S92 [ref. 27377], Bonfil & Abdallah 2004:34 [ref. 27735], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:62 [ref. 28072], Compagno et al. 2005:43 [ref. 29145], Hoese et al. 2006:106 [ref. 29001], Wirtz et al. 2007:23 [ref. 30263], Moore et al. 2012:10 [ref. 31771], Wirtz et al. 2013:116 [ref. 32972], Larson et al. 2013:12 [ref. 32988], Kottelat 2013:22 [ref. 32989], Ebert et al. 2013:337 [ref. 33045], Shinohara et al. 2014:233 [ref. 33330] as Rhizopriodon, Parin et al. 2014:24 [ref. 33547]). Common Names  Common Names Picture  Picture Places  Places Hierarchy  Hierarchy Pictures  Pictures First Publication  First Publication Collections  Collections Species Links  Species Links Name Combinations  Name Combinations References  References Page 1 of 1 (18 items). Click on a column heading to sort data. [1] Page size: 25 50 100 Drag a column header here to group by that column Species   Genus Species   Authorship   Status   aaronis Rhizoprionodon aaronis (Hemprich [F. W.] & Ehrenberg [C. G.] 1899) Not available aronis Rhizoprionodon aronis (Ehrenberg [C. G.] in Klunzinger 1871) Not available crenidens Rhizoprionodon crenidens (Klunzinger [C. B.] 1880) Synonym eumeces Rhizoprionodon eumeces (Pietschmann [V.] 1913) Synonym fissidens Rhizoprionodon fissidens (Bennett [E. T.] 1831) Uncertain intermedius Rhizoprionodon intermedius (Garman [S.] 1913) Synonym lalandii Rhizoprionodon lalandii (Valenciennes [A.] (ex Valenciennes) 1839) Valid longmani Rhizoprionodon longmani (Ogilby [J. D.] 1912) Synonym longurio Rhizoprionodon longurio (Jordan [D. S.] & Gilbert [C. H.] 1882) Valid oligolinx Rhizoprionodon (Protozygaena) oligolinx Springer [V. G.] 1964 Synonym oligolinx Rhizoprionodon oligolinx Springer [V. G.] 1964 Valid porosus Rhizoprionodon porosus (Poey [F.] 1861) Valid sorrahkowah Rhizoprionodon sorrahkowah (Bleeker [P.] 1853) Synonym taylori Rhizoprionodon taylori (Ogilby [J. D.] 1915) Valid terraenova Rhizoprionodon terraenova (Richardson [J.] 1837) Spelling terraenovae Rhizoprionodon terraenovae (Richardson [J.] 1837) Valid vagatus Rhizoprionodon vagatus (Garman [S.] 1913) Synonym walbeehmi Rhizoprionodon walbeehmi (Bleeker [P.] 1856) Synonym Begins with Contains Doesn't contain Ends with Equals Doesn't equal Is less than Is less than or equal to Is greater than Is greater than or equal to Like ('%', '_') Page 1 of 1 (18 items). Click on a column heading to sort data. [1] Page size: 25 50 100 Create Filter   Loading…