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Carcharhinus falciformis
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Description
Carcharhinus falciformis (Müller & Henle 1839) —Silky shark
Taxonomy. New record from Lebanon, based on photos of two specimens landed in Sarafand (9 May 2017) and in Saida (15 September 2017).
Distribution. Circumglobal in tropical seas (including Caribbean Sea, Red Sea, Persian Gulf).
Conservation. IUCN: Global (VU: A2bd, 26 September 2017); Med. (NE); CITES: Appendix II. Capture and threats: FIT, FIB, unknown. Occurrence: Very rare. High priority for conservation action. Listed as exotic to the Mediterranean Sea (Golani et al. 2002).
Notes
Published as part of Bariche, Michel & Fricke, Ronald, 2020, The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status, pp. 1-157 in Zootaxa 4775 (1) on page 9, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4775.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3983887
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Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2017-05-09
- Family
- Carcharhinidae
- Genus
- Carcharhinus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Carcharhiniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Muller & Henle
- Species
- falciformis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2017-05-09/09-15
- Taxonomic concept label
- Carcharhinus falciformis (Muller, 1839) sec. Bariche & Fricke, 2020
References
- Golani, D., Orsi-Relini, L., Massuti, E. & Quignard, J. P. (2002) CIESM atlas of exotic species in the Mediterranean. Vol. 1. Fishes. Available from: http: // www. ciesm. org / atlas / appendix 1. html (accessed 20 September 2019)