Checklist of Sharks of the Persian Gulf
Published on 20. January 2012
Sharks of the Persian (Arabian) Gulf: a first annotated checklist (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii)
Alec B.M. Moore, Robert D. Ward and Richard Peirce.
ABSTRACT:
The first evidence-based checklist of sharks of the Persian (Arabian) Gulf is presented based on appraisal of primary literature and new data, including identifications verified by COI barcoding. Evidence of the occurrence of 26 species in the Gulf is presented, and the possible presence of a further 17 species is discussed. Carcharhinidae is the most species-rich family (16 species) present. The first substantiated Gulf records of the spinner shark Carcharhinus brevipinna, blacktip reef shark C. melanopterus¸ and scalloped hammerhead Sphyrna lewini are provided, along with a new record of the rarely reported grey nurse shark Carcharias taurus. The diversity of the Gulf’s shark fauna, and possible influences on it, are briefly discussed.
Zootaxa 3167: 1–16 (2012)
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS ARABIAN GULF. PERSIAN GULF HAS BEEN THERE BEFORE YOU OR ARABS CAME TO EXISTENCE
Before you go over the shark species of the gulf, get the name of it right! It is Persian gulf, like it has always been and it always will be!
There is no such thinf as the Arabian Gulf and Persians and Arabs are different people, what an uneducated lot you are.
they are trying slowly through media and Internet to make calling it arabian gulf more common this people would chand the name indianol ocean to arabic ocean for right amount of money ITS PERSAIN GULF got it