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Spinner shark - Carcharhinus brevipinna

Family CARCHARHINIDAE - Requiem sharks

Resouces from government sites on Carcharhinus brevipinna :

Description Spinner Shark - Carcharhinidae brevipinna
...shark went through a series of name changes including Squalus brevipinna, Aprionodon
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Gallery/Descript/finetoothshark/finetoothshark.html

Description Finetooth Shark - Carcharhinus isodon
...in Senegal and Guinea-Bissau, these sightings have not been confirmed and may be
http://www.miami.edu/sharklab/aboutbimini_sharks.html

Bimini Biological Field Station - shark research & marine biology ...
Scalloped Hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini); Spinner Shark (Carcharhinus brevipinna);
http://www.vims.edu/fastnews/sharknews.html

Sharks in the News
...shrimp. (Dodrill 1977, Clark and von Schmidt 1965). Spinner Shark, Carcharhinus
http://www.lib.washington.edu/resource/search/ResFull.asp?Field=keyword&ID=197177

UW Libraries - Database Search
...early life stages of four shark species (Rhizoprionodon terraenovae, Carcharhinus
http://www.uga.edu/marine_advisory/shark.html

Shark Project
Spinner Shark, Carcharhinus brevipinna One spinner shark was caught during
http://oceanica.cofc.edu/SharkTagging/Home.htm

Shark Tagging Home
...thresher - Alopias superciliosus smooth hammerhead - Sphyrna zygaena blacktip shark -
http://www.gettysburg.edu/~shendrix/contents54-2.htm

Contents 54-2
BENZ, GW Dermophthirius penneri sp. n. (Monogenea: Microbothriidae) an Ectoparasite
http://www.sms.si.edu/IRLFieldGuide/Carchar_limbat.htm

Introduction
...to deeper waters. Similar Species: Blacktip sharks closely resemble spinner
http://susdl.fcla.edu/lfnh/matrix/T/index_c.htm

Main Index
Carcharhinus altimus; Carcharhinus brevipinna; Carcharhinus egertoni; Carcharhinus
http://taylor.ifas.ufl.edu/main/ext/marine.htm

Taylor County Florida Cooperative Extension Service-Marine and ...
...entitled "Sharks of the inshore coastal Atlantic waters of Brevard County, Florida,
http://snre.ufl.edu/people/all.asp



Academic web resources on Carcharhinus brevipinna :

Blacktip Shark - RFE Page 2
1839 = Scoliodon audus); ?Carcharias maculipinna Günther, 1868 (not Isogomphodon
http://www.itis.usda.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/RefRpt?search_type=publication&search_id=pub_id&search_id_value=713

ITIS 'Publication' Search results for Compagno, Leonard JV
Carcharhinus brevipinna (Müller and Henle, 1839) -- valid -- spinner shark, tiburón
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?doptcmdl=ExternalLink&cmd=Search&db=taxonomy&term=LoProvFishBase%5BSB%5D+AND+species%5Brank%5D

Entrez Taxonomy
Molecular Biology Databases. FishBase. Integrated Taxonomic Information
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?doptcmdl=ExternalLink&cmd=Search&db=Taxonomy&term=LoProvFishBase%5BSB%5D

Entrez Taxonomy
Molecular Biology Databases. FishBase. Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
http://www.st.nmfs.gov/st1/recreational/survey/species_group_list.html

MRFSS - Survey Species Groups
Carcharhinus falciformis, silky shark. Carcharhinus limbatus, blacktip shark.
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/awls0437.html

LC Subject Headings Weekly List 37 (September 15, 2004)
...brevipinna 450 UF Aprionodon brevipinna 450 UF Aprionodon caparti 450 UF Blacktipped
http://www.magazine.noaa.gov/stories/mag36.htm

NOAA Magazine Online (Story 36)
Other species that bite include the spinner shark (Carcharhinus brevipinna)—also
http://flowergarden.noaa.gov/about/fishlist.html



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