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Carcharhinidae
silky shark
Carcharhinus falciformis
Silken skin on circumtropical migrations
- Tropical
- Globally widespread
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Central America and the Caribbean
- East Asia
- Europe
- North America
- Oceania
- South America
- Fusiform
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Marine fish
Africa
Fusiform
Largesilky shark is a marine fish of Circumtropical. The species occupies marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 350 cm.
- Class
- Sharks and Rays
- Order
- Ground Sharks
- Family
- Carcharhinidae
- Genus
- Carcharhinus
- Maximum length
- 350 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Circumtropical. Western Atlantic: Massachusetts, USA to southern Brazil, including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea to Uruguay (Ref. 244 , 58839 ). Eastern Atlantic: Spain, Madeira to northern Angola; St. Paul's Rocks (Ref. 13121 ); Cape Verde (Ref. 34514 ). Indo-Pacific: scattered records from the Red Sea and Natal, South Africa (Ref. 5578 ) to China, New Zealand, and the Caroline, Hawaiian, Phoenix and Line islands. Eastern Pacific: southern Baja California, Mexico to northern Chile. Highly migratory species.
- Conservation status
- VUVulnerable
Class
Family
Conservation status
