AnimalvsAnimal
Black tip reef shark out for a cruise in Moorea, French Polynesia. (9220451871)🦈

Photo: Derek Keats · CC BY 2.0

SpeciesCarcharhiniformesCarcharhinidae
Sharks & rays

🦈Blacktip reef shark

Carcharhinus melanopterus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)

کوسه باله سیاه آب‌سنگی (نام علمی: Carcharhinus melanopterus) نام یک گونه از تیره کوسه‌ماهیان درنده است که در مناطق گرمسیری اقیانوس آرام و اقیانوس هند زندگی میکند.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Videos
3
Photos
3
Measurements
4
Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
not recorded
Body length
2 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
All measurements ↓
Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Blacktip reef shark

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body length
2 mmaximum recorded
FishBase
Details ↓

Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Trophic level
3.94
FishBase
Details ↓

Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
Details ↓

From trophic level 3.94 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
traumatogenic
FishBase
Details ↓

Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Blacktip reef shark yet: body mass, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

More

More about the Blacktip reef shark

In other languages
大沙 (zh), Tubarão-de-pontas-negras-do-recife (pt), Žralok čiernohrotý (sk), Мальгашская ночная акула (ru), Requin à pointes noires (fr), Carcharhinus melanopterus (es) … and 23 more languages

حیوانات در قاب دوربین

فیلم واقعی از حیوانات این سایت — در حال شکار، درگیری و گذران زندگی روزمره.

دیدن همهٔ ۳ ویدیو ←
Tools

Compare the Blacktip reef shark

Pick a tool — the Blacktip reef shark is already selected.