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| Scientific Name | Carcharhinus obscurus (Lesueur, 1818) |
| Common Name | |
| Type Locality | No locality (= East coast of U.S.A.). |
| Synonym(s) | Carcharhinus iranzae, Carcharhinus obscurella, Carcharias macrurus, Carcharinus iranzae, Carcharinus obscurus, Eulamia obscura, Galeolamna eblis, Galeolamna greyi, Galeolamna macrurus, Prionodon obvelatus, Squalus obscurus |
| Species Information | |
| Size | 4200mm or 165.4" SL. Find near, nearer or same sized spp. |
| Habitat Information | |
| Distribution | Western Atlantic: southern Massachusetts to Florida (USA), Georges Bank, Bahamas, Cuba, northern Gulf of Mexico, Nicaragua, southern Brazil and Uruguay. 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, 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, Annex I of the 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea. |
| IUCN Red List Category | Endangered , range map and more is available on the IUCN species page. Last assessed 2018. |
| Husbandry Information | |
| Breeding Reports | There is no breeding report. |
| Further Information | |
| Reference | Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia v. 1 (pt 2), pp 223, Pl. 9. |
| Registered Keepers | There is no registered keeper. |
| Wishlists | Love this species? Click the heart to add it to your wish list. There is no wish to keep this species. |
| Spotters | Spotted this species somewhere? Click the binoculars! There is no record of this fish being seen. |
| Forum BBCode | |
 | Look up C. obscurus on Fishbase |
 | Look up C. obscurus on Encyclopedia of Life |
 | Look up C. obscurus on Global Biodiversity Information Facility |
| LFS label creator ARN ref:28.143.1118.8262 | |
| Last Update | 2025 Jan 01 13:07 (species record created: 2021 Dec 24 03:52) |