Shark genera are the genera of the shark families, among them the requiem sharks of the Carcharhinidae, the mackerel sharks of the Lamnidae and the hammerhead, bonnethead and scoophead sharks of the Sphyrnidae. GBIF lists its genera in the Carcharhinidae, led by Carcharhinus with about 91 descendant taxa, Galeocerdo with about 19, Rhizoprionodon with about 18, Scoliodon with about 16 and Glyphis with about 11. It keeps 12 in the Lamnidae, led by Carcharodon with about 38 and Isurus and Lamna with about 31 each, and two in the Sphyrnidae, Sphyrna with about 37 and Eusphyra with about 2.
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Animal Diversity Web: Carcharhinidae
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Family Carcharhinidae (Requiem sharks)
Animal Diversity Web: Lamnidae
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(Mackerel sharks or white shark)
Animal Diversity Web: Sphyrnidae
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(Hammerhead, bonnethead, or scoophead sharks)
GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, children of Carcharhinidae
GBIF SecretariatChildren of Carcharhinidae
"canonicalName":"Carcharhinus","vernacularName":"Gray Sharks","authorship":"Blainville, 1816","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1816). Prodrome d'une nouvelle distribution systématique du règne animal. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomatique de Paris. 1816: 105-112 [sic for 113-120] +121-124.","numDescendants":91
Children of Carcharhinidae: Galeocerdo
"canonicalName":"Galeocerdo","vernacularName":"tiger shark","authorship":"Müller & Henle, 1837","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Müller, J. & F. G. J. Henle. 1837. Gattungen der Haifische und Rochen nach einer von ihm mit Hrn. Henle unternommenen gemeinschaftlichen Arbeit über die Naturgeschichte der Knorpelfische. Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Konigl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1837: 111-118.","numDescendants":19
Children of Carcharhinidae: Rhizoprionodon
"canonicalName":"Rhizoprionodon","vernacularName":"sharpnose shark","authorship":"Whitley, 1929","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Whitley, Gilbert P. 1929. Additions to the check-list of the fishes of New South Wales. No. 2. Australian Zoologist 5(4): 353-357.","numDescendants":18
Children of Carcharhinidae: Scoliodon
"canonicalName":"Scoliodon","vernacularName":"spadenose sharks","authorship":"Müller & Henle, 1837","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Ber. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., 1837","numDescendants":16
Children of Carcharhinidae: Glyphis
"canonicalName":"Glyphis","vernacularName":"river shark","authorship":"Agassiz, 1843","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Agassiz, Louis. 1843.","numDescendants":11
View the Source GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, children of Lamnidae
GBIF SecretariatChildren of Lamnidae
"canonicalName":"Carcharodon","vernacularName":"white shark","authorship":"Smith, 1838","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":" Mag. nat. Hist. (n.s.), 2 : 37","numDescendants":38
Children of Lamnidae: Isurus
"canonicalName":"Isurus","vernacularName":"Shortfin Mako","authorship":"Rafinesque, 1810","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Rafinesque, C. S. (1810). Caratteri di alcuni nuovi generi e nuove specie di animali e piante della sicilia, con varie osservazioni sopra i medisimi. Per le stampe di Sanfilippo: Palermo, Italy. pp. 105, 20 fold. Pl.","numDescendants":31
Children of Lamnidae: Lamna
"canonicalName":"Lamna","vernacularName":"mackerel shark","authorship":"Cuvier, 1816","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Cuvier, G. (1816). Le Règne Animal distribué d'après son organisation pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. Les reptiles, les poissons, les mollusques et les annélides. Edition 1 [Work generally dated 1817; published before 2 December 1816 according to Roux, Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 8(1): 31]. 2( i-xviii): 1-532, [Pls. 9-10, in v. 4].","numDescendants":31
View the Source GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, children of Sphyrnidae
GBIF SecretariatChildren of Sphyrnidae
"canonicalName":"Sphyrna","vernacularName":"hammerhead shark","authorship":"Rafinesque, 1810","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Rafinesque, Constantine S. 1810. Indice d’ittiologia siciliana; ossia, catalogo metodico dei nomi latini, italiani, e siciliani dei pesci, che si rinvengono in Sicilia disposti secondo un metodo naturale e seguito da un appendice che contiene la descrizione de alcuni nuovi pesci sicilian. , Messina.: 1-70.","numDescendants":37
Children of Sphyrnidae: Eusphyra
"canonicalName":"Eusphyra","authorship":"Gill, 1862","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Gill, T. N. 1862. Analytical synopsis of the order of Squali; and revision of the nomenclature of the genera. Both articles combined as separate, pp. 1-42]. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 7: 367-370, 371-408.","numDescendants":2
View the Source Chiloscyllium (Wikipedia)
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Chiloscyllium is a genus of sharks in the family Hemiscylliidae.
Carcharhinus (Wikipedia)
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Carcharhinus is the type genus of the family Carcharhinidae.
Angelshark (Wikipedia)
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Angel sharks are sharks belonging to the genus Squatina.
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