Carcharhinus altimus (Springer 1950)

Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, Zootaxa 4588 (1), pp. 1-360 : 40

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10446819
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scientific name	Carcharhinus altimus (Springer 1950)
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Carcharhinus altimus (Springer 1950) View in CoL — Bignose shark

Status at New Ireland. First recorded from New Ireland by White et al. (2018: 219), based on a specimen caught by longline in 432 m off Kavieng in October 2015 (W. White).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Circumglobal but patchy in tropical and warm temperate seas. Usually near the bottom, 80–430 m depth. Marine.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Elasmobranchii
Order	Carcharhiniformes
Family	Carcharhinidae
Genus	Carcharhinus

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