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silky shark

species of fish
Taxon taxon Q252029

Facts

10 properties
Instance of
taxon
Short name
C. falciformis[6]
CITES Appendix
Appendix II of CITES[15]
IUCN conservation status
vulnerable[3]
Maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Invasion Biology[14]
Parent taxon
Carcharhinus[4]
Taxon common name
Silky shark, Silky Shark, 鐮狀真鯊, 大沙, 平滑白眼鮫, 鯊條, 圓頭鯊, svilnati morski pes[7][8][9][10][11][12][13]
Taxon name
Carcharhinus falciformis[5]
Taxon range
Brazil, New Guinea[16][17]
Taxon rank
species[2]
🏷️ Also known as
en silky shark en Carcharhinus falciformis ar سمك القرش الحريري cs Carcharhinus falciformis cs žralok hedvábný de Seidenhai de Carcharhinus falciformis el Λείος καρχαρίας en-gb Carcharhinus falciformis fa کوسه ابریشمی he כריש משי hu Carcharhinus falciformis hu selyemcápa id Hiu Sutra id Carcharhinus falciformis ja クロトガリザメ ko 미흑점상어 nl Carcharhinus falciformis nl Zijdehaai pl Carcharhinus falciformis
🔖 Identifiers · 46
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Carcharhinus falciformis off Cuba.jpg ↗
ADW taxon ID
Carcharhinus_falciformis
ARKive ID (archived)
carcharhinus-falciformis, silky-shark/carcharhinus-falciformis
Australian Faunal Directory ID
Carcharhinus_falciformis
BISMaL taxon ID
9001098
BOLD Systems taxon ID
72353
CITES Species+ ID
67979
CMS ID
carcharhinus-falciformis
CONABIO ID
156126PECESB500211
CalPhotos taxon ID
Carcharhinus+falciformis
Catalogue of Life ID
R3ND
DORIS ID
4524
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Dutch Caribbean Species Register ID
185009
EBiodiversity ID
197148
EUNIS ID for species
124121
Encyclopedia of Life ID
46559780
Endemia.nc animal taxon ID
6281
External data available at URL
www.gbif.org
FishBase species ID
868
Fossilworks taxon ID
83188
Freebase ID
/m/01zr4c
GBIF taxon ID
2418095
INaturalist taxon ID
96754
IRMNG ID
10580003
ITIS TSN
160310
IUCN taxon ID
39370
India Biodiversity Portal species ID
231900
KBpedia ID
SilkyShark
Maryland Biodiversity Project species ID
5102
MyBIS species ID
25487
NCBI taxonomy ID
202609
NZTCS ID
26964
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007283482505171
NatureServe Explorer ID
2.104899
New Zealand Organisms Register ID
302e9db1-37e0-40a9-9b72-33f4ce089827
OBIS ID
105789
Open Tree of Life ID
787198
Queensland Biota ID
22567
TAXREF ID
66459
TaiBNET ID
383072
TaiCOL ID (new version)
t0030157
Topic's main category
Category:Carcharhinus falciformis
UBio ID
122887
UMLS CUI
C0327645
UNII
B6V41SLM2I
WoRMS-ID for taxa
105789

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🔗 Connections
Taxon range 2
Brazil, New Guinea
IUCN conservation status 1
vulnerable
Instance of 1
taxon
Parent taxon 1
Carcharhinus
Taxon rank 1
species
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Summary

silky 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . ARKive. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . Catalogue of Life in Taiwan. Retrieved . 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . Species+. wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . gbif.org. Retrieved . gbif.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon range → Brazil, New Guinea
    Instance of → —
    Maintained by WikiProject → WikiProject Invasion Biology
    Taxon rank → species
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007283482505171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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