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Dusky shark

species of fish
Taxon taxon Q833586

Facts

11 properties
Instance of
taxon
Short name
C. obscurus[7]
IUCN conservation status
endangered[3]
Longest observed lifespan
+35[14]
NZTCS conservation status
migrant, data deficient[17][18]
Original combination
Squalus obscurus[6]
Parent taxon
Carcharhinus[4]
Taxon common name
Dusky shark, Dusky Shark, 灰色真鯊, 灰真鯊(暗體真鯊), 大沙, 灰色白眼鮫, Schwarzhai[8][9][10][11][12][13]
Taxon name
Carcharhinus obscurus[5]
Taxon range
Brazil, New Guinea[15][16]
Taxon rank
species[2]
🏷️ Also known as
en Carcharhinus obscurus en Dusky shark ar قرش داكن cs žralok velrybář cs Žralok tmavý cs Žralok šerý cs Carcharhinus obscurus de Schwarzhai de Carcharhinus obscurus de Düsterer Hai el Σκοτεινός καρχαρίας es Tiburón Arenero es Tiburon Arenero fa کوسه تیره fi Carcharhinus obscurus fi sumuhai fr Requin de sable fr Requin obscur fr Requin requiem de sable fr Requin sombre
🔖 Identifiers · 44
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85020152
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Carcharhinus obscurus at Seaworld.jpg ↗
ADW taxon ID
Carcharhinus_obscurus
ARKive ID (archived)
carcharhinus-obscurus, dusky-shark/carcharhinus-obscurus
Australian Faunal Directory ID
Carcharhinus_obscurus
BISMaL taxon ID
9001101
BOLD Systems taxon ID
12769
CMS ID
carcharhinus-obscurus
CONABIO ID
156132PECESB500211
Catalogue of Life ID
R3PY
DORIS ID
4483
EBiodiversity ID
197161
Show all 44 identifiers +32
EPPO Code
KARCOB
Encyclopedia of Life ID
46559787
Endemia.nc animal taxon ID
6280
External data available at URL
www.gbif.org
FishBase species ID
878
Fossilworks taxon ID
83194
Freebase ID
/m/0bv0v2
GBIF taxon ID
2418005
INaturalist taxon ID
96762
IRMNG ID
10151757
ITIS TSN
160268
IUCN taxon ID
3852
Maryland Biodiversity Project species ID
5106
NCBI taxonomy ID
7807
NZTCS ID
26967
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007283482405171
NatureServe Explorer ID
2.101390
New Zealand Organisms Register ID
7cd1cc64-7200-42f9-82bd-ebd0fb3a803d
OBIS ID
105796
Observation.org taxon ID
794280
Open Tree of Life ID
400238
Queensland Biota ID
22575
TAXREF ID
66477
TaiBNET ID
383078
TaiCOL ID (new version)
t0030163
Topic's main category
Category:Carcharhinus obscurus
UBio ID
2291208
UMLS CUI
C0327650
UNII
FC2L8IO3UP
WoRMS-ID for taxa
105796
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
01493001-n
Yale LUX ID
concept/3131d761-e3a7-4eef-9c5e-cac0d43f1856

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🔗 Connections
Taxon range 2
Brazil, New Guinea
← Found in taxon 2
creatine, arsenobetaine
IUCN conservation status 1
endangered
Instance of 1
taxon
Parent taxon 1
Carcharhinus
Taxon rank 1
species
← Main food source 1
great white shark
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Summary

Dusky shark is a taxon[1].

Related Entities

Brazil New Guinea

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . ARKive. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . Catalogue of Life in Taiwan. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . Catalogue of Life in Taiwan. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . Catalogue of Life in Taiwan. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . Catalogue of Life in Taiwan. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . The importance of habitat and life history to extinction risk in sharks, skates, rays and chimaeras. wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . gbif.org. Retrieved . gbif.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . New Zealand Threat Classification System Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . Conservation status of chondrichthyans (chimaeras, sharks and rays) in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2024. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    NZTCS conservation status → migrant, data deficient
    Parent taxon → Carcharhinus
    Instance of → taxon
    Taxon range → Brazil, New Guinea
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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