Carcharhinus longimanus
Description
Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey, 1861).
Oceanic Whitetip Shark. To at least 3.5 m (11.5 ft) TL (Weigmann 2016), and possibly to 3.95 m (13 ft) TL (Compagno 1984). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Ryukyu Islands (Yoshino and Aonuma in Nakabo 2002); unconfirmed reports from central California (Ebert 2003); perhaps Gaviota, southern California (Tim Herrlinger and Paul Krause, pers. comm. to M.L.), and Cortes Bank, southern California (Miller and Lea 1972), to Puerto Pizarro, Peru (Chirichigno 1974), including Gulf of California (Compagno et al. in Fischer et al. 1995), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Depth: at or near surface to 1,190 m (3,903 ft) (min.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983; max.: Howey et al. 2016). The individuals living in the Indo-Pacific and eastern Atlantic may be a separate species (Naylor et al. 2012).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Carcharhinidae
- Genus
- Carcharhinus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Carcharhiniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Poey
- Species
- longimanus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey, 1861) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Weigmann, S. (2016) Annotated checklist of the living sharks, batoids and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes) of the world, with a focus on biogeographical diversity. Journal of Fish Biology, 88, 837 - 1037. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / jfb. 12874
- Compagno, L. J. V. (1984) FAO Species Catalogue. Volume 4. Sharks of the World. Part 1. Hexanchiformes to Lamniformes. Part 2. Carcharhiniformes. FAO Fisheries Synopsis, No. 125, Volume 4, Parts 1 and 2. FAO, Rome.
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Ebert, D. A. (2003) Sharks, Rays, and Chimaeras of California. University of California Press, Berkeley.
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- Chirichigno, F. N. (1974) Clave para identificar los peces marinos del Peru. Instituto del Mar del Peru Informe, No. 44.
- Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
- Howey, L. A., Tolentino, E. R., Papastamatiou, Y. P., Brooks, E. J., Abercrombie, D. L., Watanabe, Y. Y., Williams, S., Brooks, A., Chapman, D. D. & Jordan, L. K. B. (2016) Into the deep: the functionality of mesopelagic excursions by an oceanic apex predator. Ecology and Evolution, 6, 5290 - 5304. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / ece 3.2260
- 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