🦈Blacktip reef shark

Carcharhinus melanopterus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)

כריש שחור סנפירים (שם מדעי: Carcharhinus melanopterus) הוא מין של כריש ממשפחת הכרישיים החי בשוניות אלמוגים וימים רדודים באוקיינוסים הטרופיים והוא בין הכרישים הנפוצים בשוניות. סימן הזיהוי הבולט שלו הוא קצוות סנפיריו וזנבו השחורים וכן אפו המעוגל.

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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

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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

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Trophic level

3.94

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Diet

carnivoreaverage

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

Danger to humans

traumatogenic

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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.

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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

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