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Carcharhinus limbatus

Black-tip shark

IUCN: vulnerablemarinebrackish

(Valenciennes, 1839)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 105793 ↗

5

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1969

First collected

1983

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Carcharhinus limbatus, most mentions first.

  1. 1997

    Biodiversity of marine communities in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii with observations on introduced exotic species

    Coles, S.L., R.C. DeFelice, L.G. Eldredge, J.T. Carlton, R.L. Pyle, & A. Suzumoto · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Two centuries of collecting

1960s1980s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1969 by T.A. Clarke (Oʻahu).