Carcharhinus altimus (Springer 1950)

Bariche, Michel & Fricke, Ronald, 2020, The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status, Zootaxa 4775 (1), pp. 1-157 : 8-9

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4775.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4346539

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Felipe

scientific name

Carcharhinus altimus (Springer 1950)
status

 

Carcharhinus altimus (Springer 1950) View in CoL —Bignose shark

Taxonomy. New record from Lebanon, based on photos of an individual landed in Jounieh by a fisherman (11 January 2017) .

Distribution. Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas (including Caribbean Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea).

Conservation. IUCN: Global (DD: 1 December 2008); Med. (DD: 25 March 2016). Capture and threats: FIT, FIB, unknown. Occurrence: Very rare. High priority for conservation action. Listed as exotic to the Mediterranean Sea ( Golani et al. 2002).

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