Animalia > Chordata > Elasmobranchii > Carcharhiniformes > Carcharhinidae > Carcharhinus > Carcharhinus dussumieri

Carcharhinus dussumieri (Widemouth blackspot shark; White-cheeked whaler shark; White-cheeked shark; Whitecheek whaler; Whitecheek shark; White cheeked shark; White check shark; Coates' shark; Blacktip shark; Wide-mouth blackspot shark)

Synonyms: Carcharias dussumieri; Carcharias malabaricus
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Wikipedia Abstract

The whitecheek shark or widemouth blackspot shark (Carcharhinus dussumieri), is a requiem shark of the family Carcharhinidae, found in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean between latitudes 34°N and 25°S. It can reach a length of 1 m. It feeds mainly on fish, cephalopods, and crustaceans. It is a viviparous species, with the female giving birth to up to four live young.
View Wikipedia Record: Carcharhinus dussumieri

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Carcharhinus dussumieri

Prey / Diet

Metapenaeus eboracensis (york shrimp)[1]
Metapenaeus ensis (greasyback shrimp)[1]
Penaeus semisulcatus (green tiger prawn)[1]
Trachypenaeus anchoralis (hardback shrimp)[1]
Trachysalambria curvirostris (camarón fijador arquero)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Diets of piscivorous fishes in a tropical Australian estuary, with special reference to predation on penaeid prawns, J. P. Salini, S. J. M. Blaber and D. T. Brewer, Marine Biology 105, 363-374 (1990)
♦ 2Pollerspöck, J. & Straube, N. (2015), Bibliography database of living/fossil sharks, rays and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii, Holocephali) -Host-Parasites List/Parasite-Hosts List-, World Wide Web electronic publication, Version 04/2015;
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0