Carcharhinus falciformis

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Elasmobranchii; Carcharhiniformes; Carcharhinidae; Carcharhinus; Carcharhinus falciformis; Yukon; Baja; Galapagos; Pacific; Milton; Romero; Malle; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818626; https://zenodo.org/record/5818626

Carcharhinus falciformis (Müller & Henle, 1839). Silky Shark . To about 3.5 m (11.5 ft) TL (Weigmann 2016). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean at least as far northward as Ryukyu Islands (Yoshino and Aonuma in Nakabo 2002); Lagunas Ojo de Liebre-Guerrero Negro, central Baja California (Galván-Magaña et al. 2000) to northern Chile (Grove and Lavenberg 1997), including Gulf of California (Compagno et al. in Fischer et al. 1995), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Depth: surface to 500 m (1,640 ft) or more (min.: Ebert et al. 2013; max.: Compagno 1984). : Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 : {"references": ["Weigmann, S. (2016) Annotated checklist of the living sharks, batoids and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes) of the world, with a focus on biogeographical diversity. Journal of Fish Biology, 88, 837 - 1037. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / jfb. 12874", "Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.", "Galvan-Magana, F., Gutierrez-Sanchez, F., Abitia-Cardenas, L. A. & Rodriquez-Romero, J. (2000) The distribution and affinities of the shorefishes of the Baja California Sur lagoons. In: Munawar, M., Lawrence, S. G., Munawar, I. F. & Malle, D. F. (Eds.), Aquatic Ecosystems of Mexico: Status and Scope. Ecovision World Monograph Series. Backhuys Publisher, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 383 - 398.", "Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.", "Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.", "Ebert, D. A., Fowler, S. & Compagno, L. (2013) Sharks of the World. Wild Nature Press, Plymouth, Great Britain. 528 p.", "Compagno, L. J. V. (1984) FAO Species Catalogue. Volume 4. Sharks of the World. Part 1. Hexanchiformes to Lamniformes. Part 2. Carcharhiniformes. FAO Fisheries Synopsis, No. 125, Volume 4, Parts 1 and 2. FAO, Rome."]}