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oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus)
Subject: oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus)
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FMIB 41069 Carcharias insularum Type.jpeg
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oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus)


Author John Otterbein Snyder (1867–1943)  
Description
English: Carcharias insularum. Type Synonym of Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey 1861).
Subject: Carcharias
Tag: Fish
Date 1904
Source/Photographer
English: Snyder, John Otterbein (1904) Catalogue of the Shore Fishes Collected by the Steamer Albatross About the Hawaiian Islands in 1902, Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, vol.22, 1902, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_41069_Carcharias_insularum_Type.jpeg

The oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus), also known as Brown Milbert's sand bar shark, brown shark, nigano shark, oceanic white-tipped whaler, and silvertip shark, is a large pelagic requiem shark inhabiting tropical and warm temperate seas. Its stocky body is most notable for its long, white-tipped, rounded fins.

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