Kingdom: Animalia > Phylum: Chordata > Class: Elasmobranchii > Order: Carcharhiniformes > Family: Carcharhinidae > Genus: Carcharhinus > Species: Carcharhinus plumbeus

Sandbar shark - Carcharhinus plumbeus (Nardo, 1827)

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Quick facts

Threat status Europe Endangered (IUCN)
Protected by 1 international agreement

Distribution

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Threat and conservation status

IUCN Red List status of threatened species

The IUCN Red List threat status assesses the risk of extinction.

IUCN Red List Category
Not Evaluated
Near Threatened
Regionally Extinct
Not Applicable
Vulnerable
Extinct in the Wild
Data Deficient
Endangered
Extinct
Least Concern
Critically Endangered

EU conservation status

The EU conservation status is assessed for species mentioned in the EU Habitats Directive annexes. The EU Habitats Directive does not cover this species.

Natura 2000 sites

Not available

Common names and synonyms

Common Name Language Reference
Carcharias Greek Fishbase
Pas sivonja Serbian Fishbase
Pas tupan sil Serbian Fishbase
Peshkagen i hirte Albanian Fishbase
Peshkaqen i hirte Albanian Fishbase
Requin gris French Fishbase
Sandbar shark English Fishbase
Skylópsaro Greek Fishbase
Squalo grigio Italian Fishbase
Staktocarcharias Greek Fishbase
Tiburón de Milberto Spanish Fishbase
Tiburón trozo Spanish Fishbase
Tubarão-corre-costa Portuguese Fishbase
No synonyms available.

Other resources

CoL (accepted name) Catalogue of Life
Fauna Europaea search Fauna Europaea
FishBase FishBase
GBIF Global Biodiversity Information Facility
ITIS (Valid name) Interagency Taxonomic Information System
NCBI search National Center for Biotechnology Information
PESI (Accepted) Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure
Wikipedia Wikipedia
WoRMS World Register of Marine Species

External data

No external data sets available for this species
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