^ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvBonfil, R. (2008). “The Biology and Ecology of the Silky Shark, Carcharhinus falciformis”. In Camhi, M., Pikitch, E.K. and Babcock, E.A.. Sharks of the Open Ocean: Biology, Fisheries and Conservation. Blackwell Science. pp. 114–127. ISBN0-632-05995-8
^ abcdefghijCompagno, L.J.V. (1984). Sharks of the World: An Annotated and Illustrated Catalogue of Shark Species Known to Date. Food and Agricultural Organization. pp. 470–472. ISBN92-5-101384-5
^ abGarrick, J.A.F., Backus, R.H. and Gibbs, R.H. (Jr.) (June 30, 1964). “Carcharhinus floridanus, the Silky Shark, a Synonym of C. falciformis”. Copeia (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists) 1964 (2): 369–375. doi:10.2307/1441029. JSTOR1441029.
^ abCicimurri, D.J. and Knight, J.L. (2009). “Two Shark-bitten Whale Skeletons from Coastal Plain Deposits of South Carolina”. Southeastern Naturalist8 (1): 71–82. doi:10.1656/058.008.0107.
^ abBourdon, J. (May 2009). Fossil Genera: Carcharhinus. The Life and Times of Long Dead Sharks. Retrieved on April 18, 2010.
^Carnevale, G.; Marsili, S.; Caputo, D. and Egisti, L. (December 2006). “The Silky Shark, Carcharhinus falciformis (Bibron, 1841), in the Pliocene of Cava Serredi (Fine Basin, Italy)”. Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie Abhandlungen242 (2–3): 357–370.
^Garrick, J.A.F. (1982). Sharks of the genus Carcharhinus. NOAA Technical Report, NMFS Circ. 445: 1–194.
^Compagno, L.J.V. (1988). Sharks of the Order Carcharhiniformes. Princeton University Press. pp. 319–320. ISBN0-691-08453-X
^Naylor, G.J.P. (1992). “The phylogenetic relationships among requiem and hammerhead sharks: inferring phylogeny when thousands of equally most parsimonious trees result”. Cladistics8: 295–318. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.1992.tb00073.x.
^Dosay-Akbulut, M. (2008). “The phylogenetic relationship within the genus Carcharhinus”. C. R. Biologies331 (7): 500–509. doi:10.1016/j.crvi.2008.04.001. PMID18558373.
^Kohin, S., Arauz, R.; Holts D. and Vetter, R. (2006). “Preliminary Results: Behavior and habitat preferences of silky sharks (Carcharhinus falciformis) and a big eye thresher shark (Alopias superciliosus) tagged in the Eastern Tropical Pacific”. In Rojas M., R. Zanella and I. Zanella.. Primer Seminario-Taller del Estado del Conocimiento de la Condrictiofauna de Costa Rica. INBIO. pp. 17–19
^Hoffmayer, E.R., Franks, J.S., Driggers, W.B. (III) and Grace, M.A. (March 26, 2009). "Movements and Habitat Preferences of Dusky (Carcharhinus obscurus) and Silky (Carcharhinus falciformis) Sharks in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Preliminary Results." 2009 MTI Bird and Fish Tracking Conference Proceedings.
^ abcBonfil, R., Mena R. and de Anda, D. (September 1993). Biological parameters of commercially exploited silky sharks, Carcharhinus falciformis, from the Campeche Bank, Mexico. NOAA Technical Report NMFS 115:73–86.
^ abcStrasburg, D.W. (1958). “Distribution, abundance, and habits of pelagic sharks in the central Pacific Ocean”. U.S. Fishery Bulletin58: 335–361.
^ abWatson, J.T.; Essington, T.E.; Lennert-Cody, C.E. and Hall, M.A. (2009). “Trade-Offs in the Design of Fishery Closures: Management of Silky Shark Bycatch in the Eastern Pacific Ocean Tuna Fishery”. Conservation Biology23 (3): 626–635. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01121.x. PMID19040650.
^ abcBane, G.W. (Jr.) (June 21, 1966). “Observations on the Silky shark, Carcharhinus falciformis, in the Gulf of Guinea”. Copeia (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists) 1966 (2): 354–356. doi:10.2307/1441150. JSTOR1441150.
^ abcMyrberg, A.A. (Jr.); Ha, S.J.; Walewski, S. and Banbury, J.C. (October 1972). “Effectiveness of Acoustic Signals in Attracting Epipelagic Sharks to an Underwater Sound Source”. Bulletin of Marine Science22 (4): 926–949.
^ abcBranstetter, S. (July 1987). “Age, growth and reproductive biology of the silky shark, Carcharhinus falciformis, and the scalloped hammerhead, Sphyrna lewini, from the northwestern Gulf of Mexico”. Environmental Biology of Fishes19 (3): 161–173. doi:10.1007/BF00005346.
^Martin, R.A. (March 2007). “A review of shark agonistic displays: comparison of display features and implications for shark-human interactions”. Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology40 (1): 3–34. doi:10.1080/10236240601154872.
^ abMyrberg, A.A. (Jr.) (February 2001). “The Acoustical Biology of Elasmobranchs”. Environmental Biology of Fishes60 (1–3): 31–46. doi:10.1023/A:1007647021634.
^Ota, Y. and Euichi, H. (May 22, 2009). “Description of Gnathia maculosa and a new record of Gnathia trimaculata (Crustacea, Isopoda, Gnathiidae), ectoparasites of elasmobranchs from Okinawan coastal waters”. Zootaxa2114: 50–60.
^Deets, G.B. (1987). “Phylogenetic analysis and revision of Kroeyerina Wilson, 1932 (Siphonostomatoida: Kroyeriidae), copepods parasitic on chondrichthyans, with descriptions of four new species and the erection of a new genus, Prokroyeria”. Canadian Journal of Zoology65 (9): 2121–2148. doi:10.1139/z87-327.
^Beveridge, I. and Campbell, R.A. (February 1993). “A revision of Dasyrhynchus Pintner (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha), parasitic in elasmobranch and teleost fishes”. Systematic Parasitology24 (2): 129–157. doi:10.1007/BF00009597.
^Whittaker, F.H.; Apkarian, R.P.; Curless, B. and Carvajal, G.J. (1985). “Scanning electron microscopy of the scolices of the cestodes Parachristianella monomegacantha Kruse 1959 (Trypanorhyncha) and Phyllobothrium sp. Beneden 1849 (Tetraphyllidea)”. Journal of Parasitology71 (3): 376–381. doi:10.2307/3282025. JSTOR3282025.
^Evans, W.R. and P.W. Gilbert. (1971). The force of bites by the Silky Shark (Carcharhinus falciformis) measured under field conditions. Naval Undersea Research and Development Center, San Diego. pp. 1–12.
^Acevedo-Gutiérrez, A. (2002). “Interactions between marine predators: dolphin food intake is related to number of sharks”. Marine Ecology Progress Series240: 267–271. doi:10.3354/meps240267.
^Gilbert, P.W. and Schlernitzauer, D.A. (September 7, 1966). “The Placenta and Gravid Uterus of Carcharhinus falciformis”. Copeia (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists) 1966 (3): 451–457. doi:10.2307/1441064. JSTOR1441064.
^ abCadenat, J. and Blache, J. (1981). “Requins de Méditerranée et d’Atlantique (plus particulièrement de la côte occidentale d’Afrique)”. ORSTOM21: 1–330.
^ abStevens, J.D. (1984). “Life-history and ecology of sharks at Aldabra Atoll, Indian Ocean”. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B222: 79–106. doi:10.1098/rspb.1984.0050.
^ abStevens, J.D. (1984). “Biological observations on sharks caught by sport fishermen off New South Wales”. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research35: 573–590. doi:10.1071/MF9840573.
^Stevens, J.D. and McLouhlin, K.J. (1991). “Distribution, size and sex composition, reproductive biology and diet of sharks from northern Australia”. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research42: 151–199. doi:10.1071/MF9910151.
^ abcdJoung, S.J., Chen, C.T.; Lee H.H. and Liu, K.M. (April 2008). “Age, growth, and reproduction of silky sharks, Carcharhinus falciformis in northeastern Taiwan waters”. Fisheries Research90 (1–3): 78–85. doi:10.1016/j.fishres.2007.09.025.
^ abOshitani, S.; Nakano, S. and Tanaka, S. (2003). “Age and growth of the silky shark Carcharhinus falciformis from the Pacific Ocean”. Fishery Science69: 456–464. doi:10.1046/j.1444-2906.2003.00645.x.
^Stafford-Deitsch, J. (2000). Sharks of Florida, the Bahamas, the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. Trident Press. p. 72. ISBN1-900724-45-6
^Camhi, M.D., Valenti, S.V.; Fordham, S.V.; Fowler, S.L. and Gibson, C. (2009). The Conservation Status of Pelagic Sharks and Rays: Report of the IUCN Shark Specialist Group Pelagic Shark Red List Workshop. Newbury: IUCN Species Survival Commission Shark Specialist Group. pp. 24–25, 55–56. ISBN978-0-9561063-1-5