Carcharhinus obscurus (Lesueur, 1818)

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
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12710581
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C63F87BA-E31B-3F47-7584-DFCBECEFFA70
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scientific name	Carcharhinus obscurus (Lesueur, 1818)
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Occurrence: native

Maximum length: 420 cm TL

Water type: marine, brackish

Environment: reef associated

Depth range: 0-400 m

Migration: oceanodromous

IUCN status: EN – Endangered (A2bd / 2019)

Source: observation

Distribution and remarks: cosmopolitan but patchy distribution in tropical and warm temperate seas. Eastern Atlantic: known from Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Senegal, Sierra Leone. Observed at Mayumba (De Bruyne, pers. com.). 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 obscurus (Lesueur, 1818)

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