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oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus)
Subject: oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus)
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FMIB 42362 Carcharias insularum Snyder.jpeg
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oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus)


Author David Starr Jordan (1851–1931), Barton Warren Evermann (1853–1932)   
Description
English: Carcharias insularum Snyder
Subject: Sharks, Carcharias
Tag: Fish
Date 1905
Source/Photographer
English: Jordan, David Starr; Evermann, Barton Warren (1905) Shore Fishes of the Hawaiian Islands, With a General Account of the Fish Fauna, Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, vol. 23 for 1903, part I, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_42362_Carcharias_insularum_Snyder.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.

Silvertip shark
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