Sphyrna mokarran (Rüppell, 1837)

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 : 97

Sphyrna mokarran (Rüppell, 1837)

Occurrence: native

Maximum length: 610 cm TL

Water type: marine, brackish

Environment: pelagic-oceanic

Depth range: 1-300 m

Migration: oceanodromous

IUCN status: CR – Critically endangered (A2bd / 2019) Source: observation

Distribution and remarks: circumglobal in coastal warm temperate and tropical seas. Eastern Atlantic: known from Mediterranean and Morocco to Senegal. Observed in high sea, caught in tuna seines (Chartrain and De Bruyne, pers. obs.). CITES Appendix II. Highly migratory species, Annex I of the 1982 UNCLOS.