Animalia > Chordata > Elasmobranchii > Carcharhiniformes > Carcharhinidae > Carcharhinus > Carcharhinus melanopterus| | Carcharhinus melanopterus (Shark; Requien shark; Reef blacktip shark; Guliman; Blacktip shark; Blacktip reefshark; Black-tip reef shark; Blacktip reef shark; Blackfin reef shark; Black tips nilow; Black tip shark; Black tip reef shark; Black finned shark; Black fin reef shark) | |
Synonyms: Carcharhinus melanoptures; Carcharias elegans; Carcharias marianensis; Carcharias melanopterus; Carcharias playfairii; Carcharinus melanoptera; Carcharinus melanopterus; Hypoprion playfairi; Squalus carcharias minor Language: Afrikaans; Albanian; Arabic; Bali; Banton; Bikol; Burmese; Carolinian; Creole, French; Czech; Danish; Dutch; Fijian; Finnish; French; Gela; German; Greek; Gujarati; Hawaiian; Italian; Japanese; Kannada; Kiribati; Kuyunon; Magindanaon; Malagasy; Malay; Malayalam; Maldivian; Mandarin Chinese; Maranao/Samal/Tao Sug; Marathi; Marshallese; Niuean; Portuguese; Samoan; Spanish; Swahili; Swedish; Tagalog; Tahitian; Tamil; Telugu; Thai; Tuvaluan; Vietnamese; Waray-waray Not to be confused with the blacktip shark, Carcharhinus limbatus. colspan=2 style="text-align: center; background-color: transparent; text-align:center; border: 1px solid red;" | Blacktip reef shark 250px Conservation status File:Status iucn3.1 NT. |
| Migration [1] | Amphidromous |
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 MapsAgulhas Current; American Samoa; Andaman Sea; Arabian Sea; Atulayan Bay; Australia; Bahrain; Bangladesh; Bay of Bengal; Brunei Darussalam; Cambodia; Carigara Bay; Caroline Island; Chagos Islands; Chilka Lake; China; Cocos (Keeling) Islands; Comoros; Cook Islands; Coral Sea and GBR; Cyprus; Djibouti; East China Sea; Egypt; Eritrea; Fiji Islands; French Polynesia; Great Barrier Reef; Guam; Gulf of Oman; Gulf of Thailand; Hawaii (USA); Hong Kong; India; Indian Ocean; Indian Ocean, Eastern; Indian Ocean, Western; Indo-Pacific: Red Sea and East Africa to the Hawaiian Islands and the Tuamoto Archipelago. Apparently rare or absent in the more easterly groups. Also eastern Mediterranean (through the Suez Canal).; Indonesia; Indonesian Sea; Insular Pacific-Hawaiian; Iran (Islamic Rep. of); Iraq; Israel; Japan; Johnston Island; Kenya; Kimbe Bay; Kiribati; Kuroshio Current; Kuwait; Lagonoy Gulf; Lebanon; Leyte Gulf; Libyan Arab Jamahiriya; Macau; Madagascar; Malaysia; Maldives; Manila Bay; Marquesas Islands; Marshall Islands; Mauritius; Mediterranean Sea; Mediterranean and Black Sea; Micronesia,Fed.States of; Milne Bay; Mozambique; Myanmar; Nauru; New Caledonia; Niue; North Australian Shelf; North Marianas; Oman; Pacific Ocean; Pacific, Eastern Central; Pacific, Northwest; Pacific, Southwest; Pacific, Western Central; Pakistan; Palau; Panay Gulf; Papua New Guinea; Persian Gulf; Philippines; Polynesian Waters; Qatar; Red Sea; Rodriguez; Ryukyu Islands; Réunion; Samoa; San Miguel Bay; Seychelles; Singapore; Solomon Islands; Somali Coastal Current; Somalia; Sorsogon Bay; South Africa; South China Sea; Southwest Australian Shelf; Sri Lanka; Sudan; Sulu-Celebes Sea; Syrian Arab Republic; Tahiti; Taiwan; Tanzania, United Rep. of; Tañon Strait; Thailand; Tokelau; Tonga; Tuamoto Islands; Tubbataha Reefs; Tunisia; Turkey; Tuvalu; United Arab Emirates; Vanuatu; Viet Nam; Wake Island; Wallis and Futuna Is.; West Central Australian Shelf; Yellow Sea; Species recognized by Group expert : Compagno, L.J.V., 02-Oct-2012, FishBase in  Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org ♦ 2Clownfish and their Host Anemones ;; NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program ♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London ♦ 4Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19 |
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