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Carcharhinus melanopterus

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Description

Carcharhinus melanopterus (Quoy & Gaimard 1824) — Blacktip reef shark (Fig. 4)

Status at New Ireland. First recorded from New Ireland as Carcharias melanopterus by Peters (1877: 853); reported as Carcharhinus spallanzani (non Péron & LeSueur in LeSueur, 1822) by Munro (1958: 112). Specimens observed at Kavieng fish market in 2004–2005 by Jeff Kinch during CFMDP Survey and underwater behind Nusa Lik Island and Lissenung Island in 2015 (White & Ko'ou 2018: 36). A specimen photographed at Lissenung Island by Dietmar Amon on 9 July 2008; another photographed at St. KVG18 (south side of Bauddisson Island, Kavieng District) by Serge Andréfouët on 18 Aug. 2014.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Red Sea, East Africa and Mascarenes east to Hawaiian and Tuamotu islands, north to southern Japan, south to northern Australia. Found on coral reefs, in shallow lagoons, reef flats and seaward reefs, 0–10 m depth. Marine.

Notes

Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 41, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163

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Identifiers

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/1577035E802CFF8FEDFCCEBE1AC60F89

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.2988237 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/2988163 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/E94E7B268004FFA7ED6BCE29195D0E7C (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/C7390B16-569F-46A2-A823-0018E1934873 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/1577035E802CFF8FEDFCCEBE1AC60F89 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/157231838 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/26780/taxon/1577035E802CFF8FEDFCCEBE1AC60F89.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Carcharhinidae
Genus
Carcharhinus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Carcharhiniformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Quoy & Gaimard
Species
melanopterus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Carcharhinus melanopterus (Quoy, 1824) sec. Andréfouët, Chen, Kinch, Mana, Russell, Tully & White, 2019

References

  • Peters, W. C. H. (1877) Ubersicht der wahrend der von 1874 bis 1876 unter der Commando des Hrn. Capitan z. S. Freiherrn von Schleinitz ausgefuhrten Reise S. M. S. Gazelle gesammelten und von der Kaiserlichen Admiralitat der Koniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften ubersandten Fische. Monatsberichte der Koniglichen Preuss [ischen] Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1876, 831 - 854.
  • Munro, I. S. R. (1958) The fishes of the New Guinea region. Fishery Bulletin, Territory of Papua and New Guinea, Port Moresby, 1, 97 - 369.
  • White, W. T. & Ko'ou, A. (2018) Annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea. Zootaxa, 4411 (1), 1 - 82. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4411.1.1