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Carcharhinus cerdale

Description

Carcharhinus cerdale (Gilbert in Jordan & Evermann, 1898).

Pacific Smalltail Shark. To somewhat less than 140 cm (55.1 in) TL (Castro 2011). Formerly southern Baja California at least as far northward as about 23°24.6’N, 110°13.8’W (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), to Gulf of California (but now extirpated from this region). Now found from central America and Peru (Pollom et al. 2020b). Depth: 5–40 m (16–131 ft) (Allen and Robertson 2015).

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 17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Jordan, D. S. & Evermann, B. W. (1898) The fishes of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the species of fishlike vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama, Parts II and III. Bulletin of National Museum.
  • Castro, J. I. (2011) Resurrection of the name Carcharhinus cerdale, a species different from Carcharhinus porosus. Aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, 17, 1 - 10.
  • Pollom, R., Avalos, C., Bizzarro, J., Burgos-Vazquez, M. I., Cevallos, A., Espinoza, M., Herman, K., Gonzalez, A., Mejia-Falla, P. A., Morales-Saldana, J. M., Navia, A. F., Perez Jimenez, J. C., Sosa-Nishizaki, O & Velez-Zuazo, X. (2020 b) Carcharhinus cerdale. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020, e. T 144137478 A 144137594. https: // dx. doi. org / 10.2305 / IUCN. UK. 2020 - 3. RLTS. T 144137478 A 144137594. en
  • 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