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Carcharhinidae
dusky shark
Carcharhinus obscurus
Four meter gray body on ocean migrations
- Gray
- Tropical
- Transcontinental
- Atlantic Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Central America and the Caribbean
- East Asia
- North America
- Oceania
- South America
- Southeast Asia
- Fusiform
- Large
- Tropical fish
Gray
Tropical
Africa
Fusiform
Largedusky shark is known around Western Atlantic as a fish; The species reaches a recorded maximum of 420 cm, and its body is fusiform body.
- Class
- Sharks and Rays
- Order
- Ground Sharks
- Family
- Carcharhinidae
- Genus
- Carcharhinus
- Maximum length
- 420 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: southern Massachusetts to Florida (USA), Georges Bank, Bahamas, Cuba, northern Gulf of Mexico, Nicaragua, southern Brazil and Uruguay (Ref. 58839 ). Eastern Atlantic: Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Senegal, Sierra Leone. Some records from the Mediterranean and Madeira may be based on Carcharhinus galapagensis . Indo-West Pacific: Red Sea (Ref. 5485 ), Mozambique and South Africa to Japan, China, Viet Nam and Australia. Eastern Pacific: southern California, USA to Gulf of California and the Revillagigedo Island. Highly migratory species.
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