Negaprion brevirostris

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Carcharhiniformes
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Classis: Chondrichthyes Subclassis: Elasmobranchii Infraclassis: Euselachii Division/Cohort: Neoselachii Subdivision/Subcohort: Selachimorpha Superordo: Galeomorphii Ordo: Carcharhiniformes

Negaprion brevirostris (Poey, 1868)

Type locality: Cuba, western Atlantic.

Etymology: From brevis (= short); rostrum (= snout), referring to short, flat and broadly rounded snout. (From The ETYFish project)

Bullock, R. W., Guttridge, T. L., Cowx, I. G., Elliott, M. & Gruber, S. H., 2015: The behaviour and recovery of juvenile lemon sharks Negaprion brevirostris in response to external accelerometer tag attachment. Journal of Fish Biology, Article first published online: 29 OCT 2015. DOI: 10.1111/jfb.12808 Reference page.
Poey, F. 1868. Synopsis piscium cubensium. Catalogo Razonado de los peces de la isla de Cuba. Repertorio Fisico-Natural de la Isla de Cuba 2: 279–484. BHL Reference page.

Negaprion brevirostris in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2025. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
Negaprion brevirostris in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2025. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

Taxon identifiers
Negaprion brevirostris	ADW: Negaprion_brevirostris BioLib: 138605 BOLD: 122041 CoL: 464NF eBiodiversity: 201328 EoL: 46559813 EUNIS: 25800 Fishbase: 897 Fossilworks: 288152 GBIF: 2417919 iNaturalist: 106650 IRMNG: 10760385 ITIS: 160433 IUCN: 39380 NCBI: 7821 TAXREF-INPN: 66491 WoRMS: 105800 Wikidata: Q206495
Hypoprion brevirostris	CoL: 3NY6N GBIF: 2417920 ITIS: 160435 WoRMS: 318601 Wikidata: Q107055077