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Carcharhinus albimarginatus

Description

Carcharhinus albimarginatus (Rüppell, 1837).

Silvertip Shark. 3 m (9.8 ft) TL (Compagno et al. in Fischer et al. 1995). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to Ryuku Islands (Yoshino and Aonuma in Nakabo 2002); Patchily distributed from Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California (Galván-Magaña et al. 2000) to Ecuador (Béarez 1996), including Guatamala, Colombia, Islas Revillagigedo, Clipperton Islands, Isla Cocos, and Islas Galápagos (Ebert et al. 2013). Depth: surface to 800 m (2,624 ft) or more (Compagno et al. in Fischer et al. 1995).

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

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  • Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
  • Galvan-Magana, F., Gutierrez-Sanchez, F., Abitia-Cardenas, L. A. & Rodriquez-Romero, J. (2000) The distribution and affinities of the shorefishes of the Baja California Sur lagoons. In: Munawar, M., Lawrence, S. G., Munawar, I. F. & Malle, D. F. (Eds.), Aquatic Ecosystems of Mexico: Status and Scope. Ecovision World Monograph Series. Backhuys Publisher, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 383 - 398.
  • Bearez, P. (1996) Lista de los peces marinos del Ecuador continental. Revista de Biologia Tropical, 44, 731 - 741.
  • Ebert, D. A., Fowler, S. & Compagno, L. (2013) Sharks of the World. Wild Nature Press, Plymouth, Great Britain. 528 p.