Carcharhinus galapagensis
Description
Carcharhinus galapagensis (Snodgrass & Heller, 1905).
Galapagos Shark. To at least 3.0 m (12.1 ft) TL and possibly to 3.7 m (14.1 ft) TL (Weigman 2016). Circumglobal in tropical waters; western Pacific Ocean north to Ogasawara Islands (Yoshino and Aonuma in Nakabo 2002); patchily distributed from central Baja California (Compagno et al. in Fischer et al. 1995), and Rocas Alijos, southern Baja California (Gotshall 1996), to Peru (Cornejo et al. 2015), and Easter Island (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Compagno et al. in Fischer et al. 1995) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Depth: surface to 371 m (1,217 ft) (min.: Allen and Robertson 2015; max.: Weijerman et al. 2019). Possibly a synonym of Carcharhinus obscurus (Naylor et al. 2012). Pazmiño et al. (2019) reported on a number of individuals that were hybrids of C. galapagensis and Carcharhinus obscurus (Lesueur, 1818) 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
- Snodgrass & Heller
- Species
- galapagensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Carcharhinus galapagensis (Snodgrass, 1905) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- 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.
- Gotshall, D. W. (1996) Fishes of Rocas Alijos. In: Smeider, R. W. (Ed.). Rocas Alijos Scientific Results from the Cordell Expedition. Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, pp. 347 - 354.
- Cornejo, R., Velez-Zuazo, X., Gonzalez-Pestana, A., Kouri J., C. & Mucientes, G. (2015) An updated checklist of Chondrichthyes from the southeast Pacific off Peru. CheckList, 11, 1809. https: // doi. org / 10.15560 / 11.6.1809
- Chirichigno, F. N. & Velez D, J. (1998) Clave para identificaticar los peces marinos del Peru (segunda edicion, revisada y actualizada). Instituto de Mar de Peru Publicacion Especial.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- 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
- Weijerman, M., Gruss, A., Dove, D., Asher, J., Williams, I. D., Kelley, C. & Drazen, J. (2019) Shining a light on the composition and distribution patterns of mesophotic and subphotic fish communities in Hawai'i. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 630, 161 - 182. https: // doi. org / 10.3354 / meps 13135
- 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
- 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