Carcharhinus obscurus

• 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 obscurus; Yukon; Baja; Gulf of Alaska; Pacific; Milton; Redondo; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818638; https://zenodo.org/record/5818638

Carcharhinus obscurus (Lesueur, 1818). Dusky Shark . To 4.2 m (13.8 ft) TL (Weigmann 2016). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to central Japan (Yoshino and Aonuma in Nakabo 2002); Redondo Beach, southern California to Gulf of California (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983); unconfirmed from northern Chile (Ebert et al. 2013). Depth: intertidal to 573 m (1,879 ft) (Hoffmayer et al. 2014). Pazmiño et al. (2019) reported on a number of individuals that were hybrids of C. obscurus and Carcharhinus galapagensis (Snodgrass & Heller, 1905) in the eastern Pacific Ocean. : 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.", "Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.", "Ebert, D. A., Fowler, S. & Compagno, L. (2013) Sharks of the World. Wild Nature Press, Plymouth, Great Britain. 528 p.", "Hoffmayer, E. R., Franks, J. S., Driggers III, W. B., McKinney, J. A., Hendon, J. M. & Quattro, J. M. (2014) Habitat, movements and environmental preferences of dusky sharks, Carcharhinus obscurus, in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Marine Biology, 161, 911 - 924. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 00227 - 014 - 2391 - 0", "Pazmino, D. A., van Herderden, L., Simpfendorfer, C. A., Junge, C., Donnellan, S. C., Hoyos-Padilla, E. M., Duffy, C. A. J., Huveneers, C., Gillanders, B. M., Butcher, P. A. & Maes, G. E. (2019) Introgressive hybridization between two widespread sharks in the east Pacific region. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 136, 119 - 127. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ympev. 2019.04.013"]}