spallanzani, Squalus Péron [F.] & Lesueur [C. A.] in Lesueur 1822:351 [Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia v. 2; ref. 17519] Long Island, between Cape Preston and the Mary Anne Group, Western Australia [Terre de Witt, northwestern Australia]. Neotype: AMS IB.1493. Authorship given as above; Péron's contribution indeterminable. Neotype designated by Endruweit 2024:30 [ref. 41040]. •Description regarded as inadequate and taxa not recognized, placed in the synonymy of Carcharhinus sorrah (Valenciennes or Müller & Henle 1839) -- (Garrick 1982:165 [ref. 5454], Compagno 1984:500 [ref. 6846], Paxton et al. 1989:79 [ref. 12442], Goren & Dor 1994:3 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:33 [ref. 22896], Randall 2005:12 [ref. 28239]). •Synonym of Carcharhinus sorrah (Müller & Henle 1839) -- (Randall 2007:34 [ref. 30952] with author as Valenciennes, Golani & Bogorodsky 2010:57 [ref. 35264], Voigt & Weber 2011:97 [ref. 31424], Ali et al. 2018:301 [ref. 36183], Golani & Fricke 2018:11 [ref. 36273], Eagderi et al. 2019:5 [ref. 37020]). •Valid as Carcharhinus spallanzani (Péron & Lesueur 1822) -- (Dor 1984:7 [ref. 29757], Endruweit 2024:29 [ref. 41040]). Current status: Valid as Carcharhinus spallanzani (Péron & Lesueur 1822). Carcharhinidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Persian Gulf, Seychelles, Madagascar and western Mascarenes east to Solomon Islands and northern Vanuatu, north to Taiwan, south to New South Wales (Australia) and New Caledonia. Habitat: brackish, marine.