temperate seas. Apparently absent in western Atlantic) Long nose grey shark Carcharhinus brevipinna (Mueller and Henle, 1839) (Continental margins of all tropical and warm temperate seas except the eastern Pacific) Whitecheek shark Carcharhinus dussumieri (Valenciennes, 1839) (Continental margins from the Persian Gulf to northern Australia and north to Japan) Silky shark Carcharhinus falciformis (Bibron, 1839) (Circumtropical, oceanic and coastal) Bull shark Carcharhinus leucas (Valenciennes, 1839) (Continental coasts of all tropical and subtropical seas, sometimes far up rivers) Blacktip shark Carcharhinus limbatus (Valenciennes, 1839) Oceanic whitetip shark Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey, 1861) (Circumtropical, mainly oceanic-epipelagic) Blacktip reef shark Carcharhinus melanopterus (Quoy and Gaimard, 1824) (Ind-west and central Pacific from East Africa and the Red Sea to Hawaii and French Polynesia) Black whaler Carcharhinus obscurus (Lesueur, 1815) (Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas, primarily on continental shelves) Sandbar shark Carcharhinus plumbeus (Nardo, 1827) (Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas) Blackspot shark Carcharhinus sealei (Pietschmann, 1916) (East Africa to Northern Australia) Spot-tail shark Carcharhinus sorrah (Valenciennes 1837) (East Africa and the Red Sea to the Solomon and Santa Cruz Islands) Tiger shark Galeocerdo cuvier (Peron and Lesueur, 1822) (Circumtropical) Sicklefin lemon shark Negaprion acutidens (Rueppell, 1837) (East Africa and the Red Sea to the Society Islands) Family Hemigaleidae - Weasel sharks Whitetip reef shark Triaenodon obesus (Rueppell, 1837) (Indo-Pacific and tropical eastern Pacific) Family Sphyrnidae - Hammerhead sharks Scalloped hammerhead Sphyrna lewini (Griffith and Smith, 1834) (Worldwide in tropical and warm temperate seas) Sphyrna mokarran Eusphyra blochii Order Torpediniformes Family Hypnidae – Coffin rays, electric rays Coffin ray Hypnos monopterygium (Shaw and Nodder, 1795) (Broome, Western Australia to Caloundra, Queensland)(Western Australia, South Australia and southeastern Australia, including southern Queensland and adjacent Great Barrier Reef) Order Rajiformes Family Rhinobatidae – Guitarfishes Common shovelnose ray Glaucostegus typus (Anonymous [Bennett], 1830) syn. Rhinobatos batillum Whitley, 1939 ((as R. batillum)Northern Australia between Shark Bay, Western Australia and the Capricorn Group, occasionally near sand cays on the Great Barrier Reef) Order Myliobatiformes Family Dasyatidae – Stingrays Kuhl's stingray Dasyatis kuhlii (Mueller and Henle, 1841) (East Africa and Red Sea to Samoa and north to Japan) Blue-spotted stingray Taeniura lymma (Forsskal, 1775) (East Africa to western Pacific and Great Barrier Reef) Black-blotched stingray Taeniura meyeni Mueller an Henle, 1841 (Indo-Pacific) Thorny ray Urogymnus africanus (Bloch and Schneider 1801) (East Africa to northern Australia and the Marshall Islands) Family Myliobatidae – Eagle rays Spotted eagle ray Aetobatus narinari (Euphrasen,