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Carcharhinidae
blacktip reef shark
Carcharhinus melanopterus
Dark fin tips circling tropical coral reefs
- Black
- Tropical
- Transcontinental
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- East Asia
- Oceania
- Fusiform
- Large
- Tropical fish
Black
Tropical
Africa
Fusiform
Largeblacktip reef shark is known around Indo-Pacific as a marine fish; It occurs in marine waters, and records give a maximum length of 200 cm.
- Class
- Sharks and Rays
- Order
- Ground Sharks
- Family
- Carcharhinidae
- Genus
- Carcharhinus
- Maximum length
- 200 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Indo-Pacific: Persian Gulf (Ref. 68964 ), Red Sea and East Africa to the Hawaiian Islands and the Tuamoto Archipelago. North to Japan and south to Australia. Apparently rare or absent in the more easterly groups. Also eastern Mediterranean (through the Suez Canal).
- Conservation status
- VUVulnerable
Class
Family
Conservation status
