Triaenodon obesus (Ruppell 1837)
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Elasmobranchii
- order
- Carcharhiniformes
- family
- Carcharhinidae
- genus
- Triaenodon
- species
- Triaenodon obesus
description
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).
Name
- Homonyms
- Triaenodon obesus (Ruppell 1837)