Carcharhinus galapagensis (Snodgrass & Heller, 1905)

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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.