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Triaenodon obesus
Description
Triaenodon obesus (Rüppell, 1837).
Whitetip Reef Shark. Reliably to 1.68 m (5.5 ft) (Weigmann 2016); possibly to 2.13 m (7 ft) TL (Appukutan et al. 1988). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to Ogasawara Islands (Yoshino and Aonuma in Nakabo 2002); at least as far north as Todos Santos (23°24.6’N, 110°13.8’W), southern Baja California (John Snow, pers. comm. to M.L.); Islas Revillagigedo, southern Baja California (Donna Schroeder, pers. comm. to M.L.) to Ecuador (Béarez 1996), including Islas Galápagos (Compagno 1984), and westwards to Kermadec Islands (Bornatowski et al. 2018); three individuals observed at a site off southeast Brazil (Bornatowski et al. 2018). Depth: surface to 330 m (1,082 ft) (Simpendorfer et al. 2020).
Notes
Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Carcharhinidae
- Genus
- Triaenodon
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Carcharhiniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Ruppell
- Species
- obesus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Triaenodon obesus (Ruppell, 1837) 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.
- Bearez, P. (1996) Lista de los peces marinos del Ecuador continental. Revista de Biologia Tropical, 44, 731 - 741.
- 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.
- Bornatowski, H., Loose, R., Sampaio, C. L. S., Gadig, O. B. F., Carvalho-Filho, A. & Domingues, R. R. (2018) Human introduction or natural dispersion? Atlantic Ocean occurrence of the Indo-Pacific whitetip reef shark Triaenodon obesus. Journal of Fish Biology, 92, 537 - 542. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / jfb. 13528