brachyurus, Carcharias Günther [A.] 1870:369 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 8; ref. 1995] Off Wanganui, New Zealand. Neotype: NMNZ P.2262. Syntypes: (4) BMNH 1846.9.11.118 (1, stuffed), 1953.5.10.6 (1, 304-mm spec.). Type catalog: Hardy 1990:6 [ref. 18942]. Neotype designated by Garrick 1982:174 [ref. 5454], but syntypes may be available. •Valid as Carcharhinus brachyurus (Günther 1870) -- (Garrick 1982:171 [ref. 5454], Eschmeyer & Herald 1983:38 [ref. 9277], Compagno 1984:464 [ref. 6846], Nakaya in Masuda et al. 1984:6 [ref. 6441], Bass et al. 1986:71 [ref. 5638], Allen & Swainston 1988:22 [ref. 25477], Gubanov & Timoxin 1989:224 [ref. 36138], Paulin et al. 1989:25 [ref. 24556], Paxton et al. 1989:76 [ref. 12442], Springer 1990:103 [ref. 19320], Randall et al. 1990:18 [ref. 15987], Kuiter 1993:12 [ref. 23929], Bianchi & Carpenter in Bianchi et al. 1993:77 [ref. 25472], Gomon et al. 1994:121 [ref. 22532], Last & Stevens 1994:235 [ref. 23873], Compagno et al. in Fischer et al. 1995:672 [ref. 22829], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:28 [ref. 24545], Allen 1997:42 [ref. 23977], Randall et al. 1997:18 [ref. 25919], Compagno & Niem 1998:1331 [ref. 23787], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:53 [ref. 24555], Sokolovskaya et al. 1998:7 [ref. 24670], Johnson 1999:719 [ref. 25471], Compagno 1999:483 [ref. 25589], Nakabo 2000:139 [ref. 25086], Soto 2001:64, 75 [ref. 26637], Choi et al. 2003:53, 472 [ref. 26218], Compagno 2003:477 [ref. 26984], Gadig & Gomes in Menezes et al. 2003:23 [ref. 27192], Morey & Massutí 2003:53 [ref. 27024], Espinosa Pérez et al. 2004:50 [ref. 27705], Nelson et al. 2004:53 [ref. 27807], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:57 [ref. 28072], Love et al. 2005:7 [ref. 37547], Hoese et al. 2006:99 [ref. 29001], White 2008:68 [ref. 30617], Voigt & Weber 2011:51 [ref. 31424], Castro 2011:403 [ref. 31457], White 2012:3 [ref. 31843], Naylor et al. 2012:27 [ref. 32267] see remarks, Page et al. 2013:51 [ref. 32708], Ebert et al. 2013:330 [ref. 33045], Parin et al. 2014:23 [ref. 33547], Duffy 2015:100 [ref. 34217], Dyldin 2015:52 [ref. 34524], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:90 [ref. 34398], Weigmann 2016:18 [ref. 34211], Compagno 2016:1299 [ref. 34544], Fourriére et al. 2016:452 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:605 [ref. 34923], Nión et al. 2016:20 [ref. 35565], Kells et al. 2016:70 [ref. 35888], Ebert et al. 2017:55 [ref. 35618], Ehemann et al. 2018:21 [ref. 36194], Fricke et al. 2018:13 [ref. 35805], Almeida & Biscoito 2019:87 [ref. 37302], Carneiro et al. 2019:24 [ref. 37250], Hoschke et al. 2019:153[ref. 36626], Reiner 2019:31 [ref. 38139], Calle-Morán et al. 2020:242 [ref. 37881], Kim et al. 2020:39 [ref. 39118] as Carcharhinus branchyurus, Kovačić et al. 2020:45 [ref. 37519], Serena et al. 2020:502 [ref. 37963], Sonoyama et al. 2020:10 [ref. 37637], Ebert et al. 2021:61 [ref. 38234], González-Acosta et al. 2021:6 [ref. 38361], Kovačić et al. 2021:9 [ref. 39014], Love et al. 2021:17 [ref. 39279], Barone et al. 2022:18 [ref. 39527], Blanco-Parra & Niño-Torres 2022:Correction, p. 3 [ref. 38986], Dyldin et al. 2022:[6] [ref. 39193], Fermon et al. 2022:95 [ref. 39448], Winton & Ebert 2022:517 [ref. 39667], Carvalho-Filho 2023:304 [ref. 40480], Page et al. 2023:40 [ref. 40505], Fricke et al. 2024:70 [ref. 41622], Leeney 2024:60 [ref. 40985]). Current status: Valid as Carcharhinus brachyurus (Günther 1870). Carcharhinidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas (including Caribbean Sea, western Mediterranean Sea, Sea of Japan, Gulf of California/Mexico). Habitat: brackish, marine.