Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey, 1861)

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 : 96

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.26028/cybium/2022-462-3-001
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scientific name	Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey, 1861)
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Occurrence: native

Maximum length: 400 cm TL

Water type: marine

Environment: pelagic-oceanic

Depth range: 0-230 m

Migration: oceanodromous

IUCN status: CR – Critically endangered (A2bd / 2019) Source: bibliography, observation

Distribution and remarks: circumglobal (tropical to warm temperate). Observed in high sea, caught in tuna seines (Chartrain and De Bruyne, pers. obs.). CITES Appendix II. Highly migratory species, Annex I of the 1982 UNCLOS.

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Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Elasmobranchii
Order	Carcharhiniformes
Family	Carcharhinidae
Genus	Carcharhinus

Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey, 1861)

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