Carcharhinus altimus (Springer, 1950)

Fermon, Yves, Bailly, Nicolas, Cardiec, Floriane, Causse, Romain, Chartrain, Emmanuel, Chirio, Laurent, Bruyne, Godefroy De, Deynat, Pascal, Hopkins, Carl D., Lamboj, Anton, Mennesson, Marion I., Beh, Jean-Hervé Mve, Paugy, Didier, Sidlauskas, Brian, Sullivan, John P., Weghe, Jean-Pierre Van De, Vigliotta, Thomas R. & Zee, Jouke Van Der, 2022, An annotated checklist of the fishes of Gabon, Cybium 46 (2), pp. 2-3 : 94

Carcharhinus altimus (Springer, 1950)

Occurrence: native

Maximum length: 300 cm TL

Water type: marine

Environment: reef associated

Depth range: 12-810 m

Migration: unknown

IUCN status: NT – Near threatened (A2d / 2020)

Source: observation

Distribution and remarks: circumglobal, with patchy records in tropical and warm seas (Compagno and Niem, 1998). Eastern Atlantic: known from Senegal to Ghana, including the Mediterranean. Observed in Mayumba (De Bruyne, pers. obs.).