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Carcharhinus hemiodon Pondicherry Shark

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/15198/
https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/39369/115736695
https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T39369A115736695.en.
 
Title Carcharhinus hemiodon Pondicherry Shark
 
Creator Kyne, Peter M
Jabado, Rima W
Akhilesh, K V
Bineesh, K K
Booth, H
Dulvy, Nicholas K
Ebert, David A
Fernando, Daniel
Khan, M
Tanna, A
Finucci, B
 
Subject Shark fisheries
Elasmobranch Fisheries
Conservation
Demersal Fisheries
 
Description The Pondicherry Shark (Carcharhinus hemiodon) is a small (to 102 cm total length) and very rare Indo-
West Pacific whaler shark. It has a wide historic range from Oman to southern China, but known records
are scattered, and it has only been reliably verified from a handful of countries. It appears to occur in
shallow coastal waters, and has also been reported to enter rivers, although this has not been verified.
The contemporary range of this species is poorly defined and museum specimens were collected pre-
1960. There are reports from 1979, the 1990s, and 2000, but none of these could be verified. Its
identification is problematic, and it is easily confused with a number of other Carcharhinus species (for
example, recent putative records from Sri Lanka).
 
Date 2021
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/15198/1/IUCN_2021_Carcharhinus%20hemiodon%2C%20Pondicherry%20Shark.pdf
Kyne, Peter M and Jabado, Rima W and Akhilesh, K V and Bineesh, K K and Booth, H and Dulvy, Nicholas K and Ebert, David A and Fernando, Daniel and Khan, M and Tanna, A and Finucci, B (2021) Carcharhinus hemiodon Pondicherry Shark. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020. pp. 1-15. ISSN 2307-8235 (online)