Carcharhinus albimarginatus (Rüppell, 1837)

Silvertip Shark

Carcharias albimarginatus R ̹ppell, 1837: 164, pl. 18 (fig. 1). Lectotype: SMF 3582 (dry and mounted); lectotype designation by Rosenblatt & Baldwin (1958). Type locality: Ras Muhammad, Sinai, Egypt, Red Sea.

Local synonymy: Carcharias albimarginatus: Bass et al., 1973: 17, fig. 6; Garrick, 1982: 116, figs. 53–54; Compagno, 1984b: 455, fig.; Bass et al., 1986: 69, fig. 9.1; Compagno, 1988a: 294; Compagno et al., 1989: 70, pl.; Compagno, 1999: 119; Compagno et al., 2005: 289, fig., pl. 52; Ebert et al., 2013 a: 457, fig., pl. 63; Ebert & Dando, 2014: 29, fig.; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 146; Weigmann, 2016: 853.

South Africa voucher material: SAIAB 25353.

South African distribution: Northern KZN.

Remarks: Although widely distributed in the tropical Indo-Pacific, it was not widely reported from South African waters until Bass et al. (1973) commented that it was rather common on the northern KZN coast.

Conservation status: VU (2016).