Carcharhinus galapagensis (Snodgrass & Heller, 1905)

Fermon, Yves, Bailly, Nicolas, Cardiec, Floriane, Causse, Romain, Chartrain, Emmanuel, Chirio, Laurent, Bruyne, Godefroy De, Deynat, Pascal, Hopkins, Carl D., Lamboj, Anton, Mennesson, Marion I., Beh, Jean-Hervé Mve, Paugy, Didier, Sidlauskas, Brian, Sullivan, John P., Weghe, Jean-Pierre Van De, Vigliotta, Thomas R. & Zee, Jouke Van Der, 2022, An annotated checklist of the fishes of Gabon, Cybium 46 (2), pp. 2-3 : 95

Carcharhinus galapagensis (Snodgrass & Heller, 1905)

Occurrence: possible

Maximum length: 370 cm TL

Water type: marine

Environment: reef associated

Depth range: 1-286 m

Migration: unknown

IUCN status: LC – Least concern (2019)

Source: bibliography

Distribution and remarks: patchy distribution mainly around warm temperate and tropical oceanic Islands in the Atlantic. Circumtropical with a preference for waters around oceanic Islands. Eastern Atlantic: known from including St. Paul’s Rocks. Records in Equatorial Guinea.