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Oceanic Whitetip Shark🦈

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SpeciesCarcharhiniformesCarcharhinidae
Sharks & rays

🦈Oceanic whitetip shark

Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey, 1861)

The oceanic whitetip shark is a large requiem shark inhabiting the pelagic zone of tropical and warm temperate seas. It has a stocky body and iconic elongated rounded fins, with white tips. The species is typically solitary, though they may gather in large numbers at food concentrations. Bony fish and cephalopods are the main components of its diet and females give live birth.

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Also called
Crow de brass star, White-tipped Shark, Whitetip Oceanic Shark, Whitetip Shark
Conservation status
CRCritically endangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
92 kg
Body length
2.7 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
22 years
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Everything we know about the Oceanic whitetip shark

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

Body mass
92 kgrecord 167 kg · FishBase
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Body length
2.7 mrecord 4 m · FishBasetypical adult
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Record: largest individual on record

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

Maximum lifespan
22 yearsrecord 22 years · FishBase
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 6
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
4.16
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 4.16 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
traumatogenic
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
92 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

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

Not recorded for Oceanic whitetip shark yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classElasmobranchii
  4. ›orderCarcharhiniformes
  5. ›familyCarcharhinidae
  6. ›genusCarcharhinus
  7. ›speciesCarcharhinus longimanus
Full lineage
  1. subphylumVertebrata
  2. superclassGnathostomata
  3. classSharks & rays · Chondrichthyes
  4. subclassElasmobranchii
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. classSharks & rays · Chondrichthyes
  7. subclassElasmobranchii
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长鳍真鲨 (zh), Carcharhinus longimanus (es), Requin longimane (fr), żarłacz białopłetwy (pl), 장완흉상어 (ko), כריש ארך-גף (he) … and 23 more languages
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