Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey, 1861)

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 18

Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey, 1861) .

Oceanic Whitetip Shark. To at least 3.5 m (11.5 ft) TL ( Weigmann 2016), and possibly to 3.95 m (13 ft) TL ( Compagno 1984). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Ryukyu Islands (Yoshino and Aonuma in Nakabo 2002); unconfirmed reports from central California ( Ebert 2003); perhaps Gaviota, southern California (Tim Herrlinger and Paul Krause, pers. comm. to M.L.), and Cortes Bank, southern California ( Miller and Lea 1972), to Puerto Pizarro, Peru ( Chirichigno 1974) , including Gulf of California (Compagno et al. in Fischer et al. 1995), and Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Depth: at or near surface to 1,190 m (3,903 ft) (min.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983; max.: Howey et al. 2016). The individuals living in the Indo-Pacific and eastern Atlantic may be a separate species ( Naylor et al. 2012).