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Taxon: Genus Carcharhinus Blainville, 1816 (fish)
Classification by:

Natura - nature
   actualia - actual entities
     Mundus Plinius - physical world
       naturalia - natural bodies
         Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
           Clade neomura Cavalier-Smith, 1987
             Domain Eukaryota Chatton, 1925 - eukaryotes
               Clade discaria Cavalier-Smith, 2021
                 Clade dorsates Cavalier-Smith, 2021
                   Clade podiates Cavalier-Smith, 2012
                     Clade Amorphea Adl et al. 2012 [Simpson, Medina & Adl 2020]
                       Clade Obazoa Brown, Sharpe, Silberman, Heiss, Lang, Simpson & Roger 2013
                         Clade Opisthokonta Cavalier-Smith 1987 [Simpson & Medina 2020] - animal-fungal clade
                           Superkingdom Holozoa Lang, O'Kelly, Nerad, Gray & Burger, 2002
                             Clade filozoa Shalchian-Tabrizi, Minge, Espelund, Orr, Ruden, Jakobsen & Cavalier-Smith, 2008
                               Kingdom Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
                                 Clade Planulozoa Wallberg, Thollesson, Farris & Jondelius 2004
                                   Subkingdom Bilateria Hatschek, 1888 - bilaterians
                                     Clade Nephrozoa Jondelius, Ruiz-Trillo, Baguñà & Riutort 2002
                                       Infrakingdom Deuterostomia Grobben, 1908
                                         Phylum Chordata Bateson, 1885 - chordates
                                           Subphylum Craniata auct.
                                             Infraphylum Vertebrata Lamarck, 1801 - vertebrates
                                               Clade Pan-Gnathostomata Downs 2020
                                                 Superclass Gnathostomata Gegenbaur, 1874 - jawed vertebrates
                                                   [crown] Clade Eugnathostomata
                                                     [crown] Class Chondrichthyes Huxley, 1880 - cartilaginous fishes
                                                       Subclass Euselachii Hay, 1902 - sharks, rays, and related fossils
                                                         Infraclass Elasmobranchii Bonaparte, 1838
                                                           Division Selachii - sharks
                                                             Superorder Galeomorphi Compagno, 1973
                                                               Order Carcharhiniformes Compagno, 1973 - ground sharks
                                                                 Suborder Carcharhinoidei
                                                                   Family Carcharhinidae Jordan & Evermann, 1896 - requiem sharks
                                                                     Genus Carcharhinus Blainville, 1816
                                                                       01 Carcharhinus acronotus (Poey, 1860) - blacknose shark
                                                                       02 Carcharhinus albimarginatus (Rüppell, 1837) - shark
                                                                       03 Carcharhinus altimus (Springer, 1950) - bignose shark
                                                                       04 Carcharhinus amblyrhynchoides (Whitley, 1934) - graceful shark
                                                                       05 Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Bleeker, 1856) - shark
                                                                       06 Carcharhinus amboinensis (Müller & Henle, 1839) - Java shark
                                                                       07 Carcharhinus borneensis (Bleeker, 1859) - Borneo shark
                                                                       08 Carcharhinus brachyurus (Günther, 1870) - bronze
                                                                       09 Carcharhinus brevipinna (Müller & Henle, 1839) - great blacktip shark
                                                                       10 Carcharhinus cautus (Whitley, 1945) - nervous shark
                                                                       11 Carcharhinus dussumieri (Valenciennes, 1839) - whitecheek shark
                                                                       12 Carcharhinus falciformis (Bibron, in Müller & Henle, 1839) - ridgeback shark
                                                                       13 Carcharhinus fitzroyensis (Whitley, 1943) - creek whaler
                                                                       14 Carcharhinus galapagensis (Snodgrass & Heller, 1905) - Galapagos shark
                                                                       15 Carcharhinus hemiodon (Valenciennes, 1839) - Pondicherry shark
                                                                       16 Carcharhinus isodon (Valenciennes, in Müller & Henle, 1839) - finetooth shark
                                                                       17 Carcharhinus leiodon (Garrick, 1985) - smoothtooth blacktip
                                                                       18 Carcharhinus leucas (Valenciennes, in Müller & Henle, 1839) - bull shark
                                                                       19 Carcharhinus limbatus (Valenciennes, in Müller & Henle, 1839) - blacktip reef shark
                                                                       20 Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey, 1861) - oceanic whitetip shark
                                                                       21 Carcharhinus macloti (Müller & Henle, 1839) - hardnose shark
                                                                       22 Carcharhinus melanopterus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) - shark
                                                                       23 Carcharhinus obscurus (LeSueur, 1818) - dusky shark
                                                                       24 Carcharhinus perezi (Poey, 1876) - reef shark
                                                                       25 Carcharhinus plumbeus (Nardo, 1827) - brown shark
                                                                       26 Carcharhinus porosus (Ranzani, 1839) - shark
                                                                       27 Carcharhinus sealei (Pietschmann, 1916) - blackspot shark
                                                                       28 Carcharhinus signatus (Poey, 1868) - night shark
                                                                       29 Carcharhinus sorrah (Valenciennes, 1839) - spottail shark
                                                                       30 Carcharhinus tilstoni (Whitley, 1950) - Australian blacktip shark

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