Species: Carcharhinus brachyurus, Bronze Whaler Shark, Copper Shark, Narrowtooth Shark

Carcharhinus brachyurus (Günther, 1870)

Narrowtooth Shark, Copper Shark, Bronze Whaler Shark

Body slender; snout blunt, broad, rounded, its length 1.1-1.4 times the distance between nostrils; nasal orifices small and well separated; round eye; spiracle absent; upper front teeth narrow and hooked, with finely serrated points; top teeth of males are longer and narrower than those of females; lower front teeth narrow, high, straight, finely serrated; 5 short gill slits, last 2 over pectoral fin base; dorsal fins relatively small, with short rear free tips; first dorsal front edge straight, origin over/slightly before inner free tip of pectoral; second dorsal origin slightly behind anal fin origin; pectoral long, straight; no crest on back between dorsal fins; tail base without keel; tail fin strongly asymmetrical, with well developed lower lobe, undulating ridge along dorsal surface of top lobe, and a notch under tip of that lobe.

Grey-brown to copper above, belly whitish; a pale stripe along flank; most fins with slightly darker edges & dusky to black tips, not strongly marked.

Size: 295 cm.

Habitat: inshore to offshore, continental, from surfline deeper.

Depth: 0-360 m.

Circumglobal; in the eastern Atlantic and SW Atlantic (Brazil and Argentina);the southern Gulf of Mexico to the lesser Antilles.