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Carcharhinus obscurus
Description
Carcharhinus obscurus (Lesueur, 1818).
Dusky Shark. To 4.2 m (13.8 ft) TL (Weigmann 2016). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to central Japan (Yoshino and Aonuma in Nakabo 2002); Redondo Beach, southern California to Gulf of California (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983); unconfirmed from northern Chile (Ebert et al. 2013). Depth: intertidal to 573 m (1,879 ft) (Hoffmayer et al. 2014). Pazmiño et al. (2019) reported on a number of individuals that were hybrids of C. obscurus and Carcharhinus galapagensis (Snodgrass & Heller, 1905) in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Carcharhinidae
- Genus
- Carcharhinus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Carcharhiniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Lesueur
- Species
- obscurus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Carcharhinus obscurus (Lesueur, 1818) 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
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- 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.
- Ebert, D. A., Fowler, S. & Compagno, L. (2013) Sharks of the World. Wild Nature Press, Plymouth, Great Britain. 528 p.
- Hoffmayer, E. R., Franks, J. S., Driggers III, W. B., McKinney, J. A., Hendon, J. M. & Quattro, J. M. (2014) Habitat, movements and environmental preferences of dusky sharks, Carcharhinus obscurus, in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Marine Biology, 161, 911 - 924. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 00227 - 014 - 2391 - 0
- Pazmino, D. A., van Herderden, L., Simpfendorfer, C. A., Junge, C., Donnellan, S. C., Hoyos-Padilla, E. M., Duffy, C. A. J., Huveneers, C., Gillanders, B. M., Butcher, P. A. & Maes, G. E. (2019) Introgressive hybridization between two widespread sharks in the east Pacific region. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 136, 119 - 127. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ympev. 2019.04.013