Carcharhinus melanopterus
Black Tip Shark
IUCN: vulnerablemarinebrackish
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)Accepted name in the World Register of Marine Species.WoRMS 105795 ↗
8
Bishop specimens
0
Type specimens
1923
First collected
1971
Last collected
No recent record
Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi
Two centuries of collecting
1920s1970s
The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1923 by H.G. Hornbostel (Guam).