Carcharhinus obscurus (Lesueur 1818)
- 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
- Carcharhinus
- species
- Carcharhinus obscurus
description
Dusky Shark. To 4.2 m (13.8 ft) TL (Weigmann 2016). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to central Japan (Yoshino and Aonuma in Nakabo 2002); Redondo Beach, southern California to Gulf of California (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983); unconfirmed from northern Chile (Ebert et al. 2013). Depth: intertidal to 573 m (1,879 ft) (Hoffmayer et al. 2014). Pazmiño et al. (2019) reported on a number of individuals that were hybrids of C. obscurus and Carcharhinus galapagensis (Snodgrass & Heller, 1905) in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
Name
- Homonyms
- Carcharhinus obscurus (Lesueur 1818)