Small blacktip shark

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Small blacktip shark
Small blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus)

Small blacktip shark ( Carcharhinus limbatus )

Systematics
without rank: Sharks (selachii)
Superordinate : Galeomorphii
Order : Ground Sharks (Carcharhiniformes)
Family : Requiem sharks (Carcharhinidae)
Genre : Carcharhinus
Type : Small blacktip shark
Scientific name
Carcharhinus limbatus
( Müller & Henle , 1839)

The small blacktip shark ( Carcharhinus limbatus ) belongs to the family of requiem sharks (Charcharhinidae).

anatomy

The small blacktip shark is a 1.5 to 2.5 m tall shark with a long, pointed snout. The beginning of the first dorsal fin is level with or slightly behind the attachment of the pelvic fins. The color is dark gray on the back and whitish on the belly. All fins except the anal fin are darkly colored at the tips.

Distribution area

Distribution areas of the lesser black tip shark

The habitat is from the surface to a depth of around 30 meters, partly also in river mouths. Widespread in tropical and subtropical seas:

  • western Atlantic (Massachusetts to southern Brazil),
  • Eastern Atlantic (Canary Islands to Zaire),
  • western Mediterranean,
  • Indian Ocean (South Africa via India to Thailand and Australia),
  • western Pacific (Philippines, China) and
  • eastern Pacific (California to Peru), as well as Hawaii, Tahiti and Galapagos Islands.

Reproduction

The small blacktip shark is viviparous with 4 to 7 young and can live up to 12 years. In addition to sexual reproduction , this species of shark also has the ability to reproduce by means of virgin generation . The small blacktip shark is not the only type of shark that is able to reproduce parthenogenetically: single-sex reproduction has also been demonstrated in the hammerhead shark .

food

The food consists of fish such as sardines , herrings , mackerel and flatfish, sometimes also shellfish and molluscs . It also happens with this species that it jumps out of the water while hunting for schooling fish.

swell

  1. ↑ Demian D. Chapman et al. (October 8, 2008): Parthenogenesis in a large-bodied requiem shark, the blacktip Carcharhinus limbatus Parthenogenesis in a large-bodied requiem shark, the blacktip Carcharhinus limbatus. In: Journal of Fish Biology, Vol. 73 pp. 1473–1477 doi : 10.1111 / j.1095-8649.2008.02018.x
  2. ↑ Martin Schäfer: How the shark comes to a child. In: Wissenschaft.de . October 10, 2018, archived from the original on October 10, 2008 ; accessed on July 8, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Demian D. Chapman et al. (August 22, 2007): Virgin birth in a hammerhead shark. In: Biology letters, Volume 3 (4), pp. 425-427, PMID 17519185 .
  4. ↑ SPON: Hammerheads can do single tricks

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