Carcharhinus brevipinna (Muller & Henle, 1839)

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 : 95

Carcharhinus brevipinna (Valenciennes in Müller & Henle, 1839)

Occurrence: native

Maximum length: 300 cm TL

Water type: marine

Environment: reef associated

Depth range: 0-100 m

Migration: oceanodromous

IUCN status: VU – Vulnerable (A2bd / 2020)

Source: bibliography, observation

Distribution and remarks: cosmopolitan in warm temperate, subtropical and tropical continental and insular shelf waters. It is found from the Mediterranean Sea southward to central Africa in the eastern Atlantic. Observed along the coast of Gabon, juveniles and adults were caught all years long by artisanal and industrial fishing (Cardiec, Chartrain and De Bruyne, pers. obs.).