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Carcharhinus obscurus (Lesueur, 1818)

Dusky shark
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Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Carcharhinus obscurus   AquaMaps   Data sources: GBIF OBIS
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Carcharhinus obscurus
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Greece country information

Common names: Karcharynos skotinochromos, Καρχαρίνος σκοτεινόχρωμος
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
Abundance: | Ref:
Importance: | Ref:
Aquaculture: | Ref:
Regulations: | Ref:
Uses: no uses
Comments: Record based on the identification of sharks in a documentary film footage (after blast fishing) and published travelogue of an underwater expedition in the Aegean Sea in the summer and early autumn of 1942 by the Austrian biologist and filmmaker Hans Hass and his team (Ref. 108722). Also Ref. 108722.
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/gr.html
National Fisheries Authority:
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Papaconstantinou, C., 2014
National Database:

Common names from other countries

التصنيف / Names الأسماء الشائعة | مرادفات | Catalog of Fishes(جنس, الانواع) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

أشلاق (القروش و الشفانين) (sharks and rays) > Carcharhiniformes (Ground sharks) > Carcharhinidae (Requiem sharks)
Etymology: Carcharhinus: karcharos (Gr.), sharp or jagged; rhinus, an ancient name for sharks, from rhine (Gr.), rasp, both words alluding to a shark's jagged, rasp-like skin. (See ETYFish);  obscurus: Latin for dark, probably referring to its darkish blue-gray body color. (See ETYFish).
  More on author: Lesueur.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range البيئة

بحري; مياه مخلوطة مرتبطة بالشعاب; محيطية (Ref. 51243); نطاق العمق 0 - 400 m (Ref. 244), usually 200 - 400 m.   Subtropical; 45°N - 46°S, 120°W - 156°E (Ref. 55186)

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