Species: Carcharhinus brachyurus, Bronze whaler Shark, Copper Shark, Narrowtooth Shark
snout wide, blunt point
Ds small
color plain
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, usually in shallow water.
Circumglobal; California to central Mexico, peru to Colombia
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- Salinity
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- Freshwater
- Brackish
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- In & Offshore
- Offshore
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Surface
- Water column only
- Near Bottom
- Near Surface
- Mid Water
- Habitat
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- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Freshwater
- Water column
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Estuary
- Reef and soft bottom
- FishBase Habitat
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- Pelagic
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Bony fishes
- Octopus/squid/cuttlefish
- Egg Type
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- No data
- No pelagic larva
- Live birth
- Global Endemism
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- East Pacific + Atlantic (East +/or West)
- Circumtropical ( Indian + Pacific + Atlantic Oceans)
- All species
- East Pacific + East (not West) Atlantic
- West + East Pacific (but not Central)
- "Transpacific" (East + Central &/or West Pacific)
- TEP non-endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent + Island (s)
- Island (s)
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic
- California + Peruvian provinces, primarily
- Continent
- Eastern Pacific non-endemic
- All species
- Temperate Eastern Pacific, primarily
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos)
- North Temperate (Californian Province &/or Northern Gulf of California)
- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- South Temperate (Peruvian Province )
- Antitropical (North and South temperate)
- IUCN Red List
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- Near threatened
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 360
- Length Max
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- 295