Carcharhinus limbatus (Müller and Henle 1839)

Smith-Vaniz, William F. & Jelks, Howard L., 2014, Marine and inland fishes of St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands: an annotated checklist, Zootaxa 3803 (1), pp. 1-120 : 20

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3803.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5114575

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scientific name

Carcharhinus limbatus (Müller and Henle 1839)
status

 

Carcharhinus limbatus (Müller and Henle 1839) View in CoL — Blacktip Shark

Justification: Listed as infrequent hook & line bycatch ( Whiteman, 2005:25) and as "occasional" by Clavijo et al. (1980:4).

Distribution: Compagno (1984b), circumtropical, WA (FL, GOM, BA, GA, VI, LA, WC, nSA, sSA), EA, IWP, EP.

Clavijo, I. E., Yntema, J. A. & Ogden, J. C. (1980) An annotated list of the fishes of St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands. West Indies Lab, Special Publication, 2 nd Ed., 1 - 49.

Compagno, L. J. V. (1984 b) Sharks of the world: an annotated and illustrated catalogue of shark species known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis, No. 125, 4 (2), 251 - 655.

Whiteman, E. A. (2005) St. Croix & St. Thomas / St. John fisheries independent trap and line survey, 1992 - 2002. Summary report: Data analysis and conclusions. Prepared for UPR Sea Grant Collage Program / NMFS Cooperative Southeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program-Caribbean (SEAMAP-C), University of Puerto Rico Sea Grant College Program, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, 56 pp.