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 in Australia as Milk shark, in Japan as Hiragashira, in Papua New Guinea as Milk shark, in Philippines as Kitil-kitil, in South Africa as Melkhaai, in South Africa as Milkshark. 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).

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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	---

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]).