|Scientific Name:||Carcharias taurus (Southwest Atlantic
subpopulation)| |Species Authority:||Rafinesque, 1810|
|Taxonomic Notes:||See Compagno (1984, 2001) for a detailed
discussion of the taxonomical background for this species and
for its separation from the genus Odontaspis. Off India it
appears to have been referred to as C. tricuspidatus (Compagno
1984) but this name was synonymized with C. taurus (Compagno
2001).| |Red List Category & Criteria:||Critically Endangered
A2abcd ver 3.1| |Assessor/s:||Chiaramonte, G., Domingo, A. &
Soto, J.| |Reviewer/s:||Musick, J., Dudley, S., Soldo, A.,
Francis, M., Valenti, S.V. & Kyne, P.M. (Shark Red List
Authority)| A large migratory coastal shark with one of the
lowest reproductive rates known among chondrichthyans, giving
birth to only one or two large young every two years. As a
result, annual rates of population increase and ability to
sustain fishing pressure are extremely low. Although the species
is widespread in subtropical and temperate waters of the Atlanti