MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Carcharhinus signatus (Poey, 1868)

Deep-Sea taxon details

Carcharhinus signatus (Poey, 1868)

$To FishBase images (<i>Carcharhinus signatus</i>, by NOAA\NMFS\Mississippi Laboratory)$

To FishBase images (Carcharhinus signatus, by NOAA\NMFS\Mississippi Laboratory)

AphiaID

105798 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:105798)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Carcharhinus Blainville, 1816

Original name

Hypoprion signatus Poey, 1868

Synonymised names

Hypoprion bigelowi Cadenat, 1956 · unaccepted

Hypoprion signatus Poey, 1868 · unaccepted

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Hypoprion signatus Poey, 1868) Poey, F. (1868). Synopsis piscium cubensium. Catalogo Razonado de los peces de la isla de Cuba. Repertorio Fisico-Natural de la Isla de Cuba. v. 2: 279-484. [details]

Descriptive notes

Distribution Delaware to Florida, Bahamas, and Cuba; southern Brazil, Argentina

Distribution Delaware to Florida, Bahamas, and Cuba; southern Brazil, Argentina [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Carcharhinus signatus (Poey, 1868). Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=105798 on 2025-05-25

Thematic species database citation

Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Carcharhinus signatus (Poey, 1868). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=105798 on 2025-05-25

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2008-01-15 17:27:08Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of Hypoprion signatus Poey, 1868) Poey, F. (1868). Synopsis piscium cubensium. Catalogo Razonado de los peces de la isla de Cuba. Repertorio Fisico-Natural de la Isla de Cuba. v. 2: 279-484. [details]

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

basis of record van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Florida Museum of Natural History. 2003. Ichthyology Collection Database., available online at http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Collection/collectdata.htm [details]

additional source McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]