Triaenodon obesus
Triaenodon obesus (Rüppell, 1837). Whitetip Reef Shark . Reliably to 1.68 m (5.5 ft) (Weigmann 2016); possibly to 2.13 m (7 ft) TL (Appukutan et al. 1988). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to Ogasawara Islands (Yoshino and Aonuma in Nakabo 2002); at least as far north as Todos Santos (23°24...
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818652 http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FF83FFA798EAFC04FEB934EC |
Summary: | Triaenodon obesus (Rüppell, 1837). Whitetip Reef Shark . Reliably to 1.68 m (5.5 ft) (Weigmann 2016); possibly to 2.13 m (7 ft) TL (Appukutan et al. 1988). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to Ogasawara Islands (Yoshino and Aonuma in Nakabo 2002); at least as far north as Todos Santos (23°24.6’N, 110°13.8’W), southern Baja California (John Snow, pers. comm. to M.L.); Islas Revillagigedo, southern Baja California (Donna Schroeder, pers. comm. to M.L.) to Ecuador (Béarez 1996), including Islas Galápagos (Compagno 1984), and westwards to Kermadec Islands (Bornatowski et al. 2018); three individuals observed at a site off southeast Brazil (Bornatowski et al. 2018). Depth: surface to 330 m (1,082 ft) (Simpendorfer et al. 2020). 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 19, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 |
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