Carcharhinus albimarginatus (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
- Carcharhinus
- species
- Carcharhinus albimarginatus
description
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).