Triaenodon obesus (Rüppell, 1837)

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, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 19

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).