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Carcharias obscurus
(non Lesueur, 1818)
Misapplied name for Carcharhinus galapagensis (Snodgrass & Heller, 1905) |
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Misapplied name
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misapplied name, misapplied
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| Etymology of generic noun from ETYFish |
From the Ancient Greek karkharías, shark, derived from kárkharos, sharp or jagged, referring to a shark’s teeth. (See ETYFish)
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References using the name as accepted
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Note: ETYFish and FishBase started a collaboration to complete the etymology for all valid names of fishes. For the current update, the following groups were completed: hagfishes (Myxini), lampreys (Petromyzonti), chimaeras (Holocephali), and sharks (Squalomorphi). It is a work in progress, so the two websites may not be synchronized.
Scharpf, C. The ETYFish Project, Fish Name Etymology Database. https://www.etyfish.org
Please, report here on etymology issues.
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