Carcharhinus brachyurus
Description
Carcharhinus brachyurus (Günther, 1870).
Copper Shark or Narrowtooth Shark. To 3.25 m (10.7 ft) TL (Randall et al. 1990). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to central Japan (Yoshino and Aonuma in Nakabo 2002); Santa Cruz Island, southern California (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California) to central Mexico (Allen and Robertson 2015); Colombia to Peru (Allen and Robertson 2015), including Gulf of California and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Depth: intertidal to 360 m (1,181 ft) (Compagno in Carpenter 2003). Naylor et al. (2012) suggest that C. brachyurus may be comprised of several species; one from the Indo-Pacific and perhaps another from the Atlantic and southern Africa region.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Carcharhinidae
- Genus
- Carcharhinus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Carcharhiniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gunther
- Species
- brachyurus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Carcharhinus brachyurus (Gunther, 1870) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Randall, J., Allen, G. R. & Steene, R. C. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Robertson, D. R. and Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 2.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa. http: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Carpenter, K. E. (Ed.). (2003) The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. Volume 1. Mollusca, Crustacea, Hagfishes, Sharks, Batoid Fishes, and Chimaeras. Volume 2. Bony Fishes Part 1 (Acipenseridae to Grammatidae). Volume 3. Bony Fishes Part 2 (Opistognathidae to Molidae), Sea Turtles and Marine Mammals. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Special Publication, No. 5. FAO, Rome. [Date on cover is 2002, but publication date is 2003.]
- Naylor, G. J. P., Caira, J. N., Jensen, K., Rosana, K. A. M., White, W. T. & Last, P. R. (2012) A DNA sequence-based approach to the identification of shark and ray species and its implications for global elasmobranch diversity and parasitology. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Number 367. https: // doi. org / 10.1206 / 754.1