Carcharhinus cerdale (Gilbert in Jordan & Evermann 1898)
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Elasmobranchii
- order
- Carcharhiniformes
- family
- Carcharhinidae
- genus
- Carcharhinus
- species
- Carcharhinus cerdale
description
Pacific Smalltail Shark. To somewhat less than 140 cm (55.1 in) TL (Castro 2011). Formerly southern Baja California at least as far northward as about 23 ° 24.6 ’ N, 110 ° 13.8 ’ W (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), to Gulf of California (but now extirpated from this region). Now found from central America and Peru (Pollom et al. 2020 b). Depth: 5 – 40 m (16 – 131 ft) (Allen and Robertson 2015).