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Carcharhinus is the type genus of the family Carcharhinidae, the . One of 12 genera in its family, it contains over half of the species therein. It contains 36-38 extant and eight extinct species to date, with likely more species yet to be described.
| Genus Carcharhinus Blainville 1816 - 36 extant species | |||||
| Blacknose shark | Carcharhinus acronotus (Poey, 1860) | Endangered | |||
| Silvertip shark | Carcharhinus albimarginatus (Rüppell, 1837) | Vulnerable | maximum | ||
| Bignose shark | Carcharhinus altimus (Stewart Springer, 1950) | Near threatened | possibly | ||
| Graceful shark | Carcharhinus amblyrhynchoides (Whitley, 1934) | Vulnerable | |||
| Grey reef shark | Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Bleeker, 1856) | Endangered | Mostly less than maximum | ||
| Pigeye shark | Carcharhinus amboinensis (J. P. Müller & Henle, 1839) | Vulnerable | max. | ||
| Borneo shark | Carcharhinus borneensis (Bleeker, 1858) | Critically endangered | |||
| Copper shark | Carcharhinus brachyurus (Günther, 1870) | Vulnerable | |||
| Spinner shark | Carcharhinus brevipinna (J. P. Müller & Henle, 1839) | Vulnerable | maximum | ||
| Nervous shark | Carcharhinus cautus (Whitley, 1945) | Least concern | possibly | ||
| Pacific smalltail shark | Carcharhinus cerdale C. H. Gilbert, 1898 | Critically endangered | |||
| Australian blackspot shark | Carcharhinus coatesi (Whitley, 1939) | Least concern | |||
| Whitecheek shark | Carcharhinus dussumieri (J. P. Müller & Henle, 1839) | Endangered | |||
| Silky shark | Carcharhinus falciformis (J. P. Müller & Henle, 1839) | Vulnerable | maximum | ||
| Creek whaler | Carcharhinus fitzroyensis (Whitley, 1943) | Least concern | possibly | ||
| Galapagos shark | Carcharhinus galapagensis (Snodgrass & Edmund Heller, 1905) | Least concern | maximum | ||
| Pondicherry shark | Carcharhinus hemiodon (J. P. Müller & Henle, 1839) | Critically endangered | |||
| Human's whaler shark | Carcharhinus humani W. T. White & Simon Weigmann, 2014 | Data deficient | |||
| Finetooth shark | Carcharhinus isodon (J. P. Müller & Henle, 1839) | Near threatened | maximum | ||
| Smoothtooth blacktip shark | Carcharhinus leiodon Jack Garrick, 1985 | Endangered | |||
| Bull shark | Carcharhinus leucas (J. P. Müller & Henle, 1839) | Vulnerable | maximum | ||
| Blacktip shark | Carcharhinus limbatus (J. P. Müller & Henle, 1839) | Vulnerable | maximum | ||
| Oceanic whitetip shark | Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey, 1861) | Critically endangered | |||
| Hardnose shark | Carcharhinus macloti (J. P. Müller & Henle, 1839) | Near threatened | |||
| Blacktip reef shark | T Carcharhinus melanopterus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) | Vulnerable | maximum | ||
| Dusky shark | Carcharhinus obscurus (Lesueur, 1818) | Endangered | maximum | ||
| Lost sharkHarris et al., 2019 | Carcharhinus obsoletus White, Kyne, & Harris, 2019 | Critically endangered (possibly extinct) | (juvenile length only) | ||
| Daggernose shark | Carcharhinus oxyrhynchus (J. P. Müller & Henle, 1839) | Critically endangered | |||
| Caribbean reef shark | Carcharhinus perezi (Poey, 1876) | Endangered | maximum | ||
| Sandbar shark | Carcharhinus plumbeus (Nardo, 1827) | Endangered | |||
| Smalltail shark | Carcharhinus porosus (Camillo Ranzani, 1839) | Critically endangered | maximum | ||
| Blackspot shark | Carcharhinus sealei (Pietschmann, 1913) | Vulnerable | |||
| Night shark | Carcharhinus signatus (Poey, 1868) | Endangered | maximum | ||
| Spot-tail shark | Carcharhinus sorrah (J. P. Müller & Henle, 1839) | Near threatened | |||
| Australian blacktip shark | Carcharhinus tilstoni (Whitley, 1950) | Least concern | maximum | ||
| Indonesian whaler shark | Carcharhinus tjutjot (Bleeker, 1852) | Vulnerable | |||
In addition, Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes recognizes two species of uncertain validity:
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