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The blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus) is a species of requiem shark, ... (4.9 ft) is more typical, and a maximum known weight of 123 kg (271 lb). [6]
The maximum weight on record with the International Game Fish Association is 13.6 kg ... The blacktip reef shark is a normal catch of coastal fisheries, ...
The common blacktip shark (pictured) is nearly identical in appearance to the Australian blacktip shark. Physically, the Australian blacktip shark can only reliably be distinguished from the common blacktip shark by the number of vertebrae (174–182 total, 84–91 before the tail in C. tilstoni, 182–203 total, 94–102 before the tail in C. limbatus).
A Black Tip shark is balanced on the side of local shark expert Chip Michalove’s boat before its release in August 2021 off Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
Oceanic whitetip shark: Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey, 1861) Critically endangered 3 m (9.8 ft) Hardnose shark: Carcharhinus macloti (J. P. Müller & Henle, 1839) Near threatened 1.1 m (3.6 ft) Blacktip reef shark: T Carcharhinus melanopterus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) Vulnerable 1.6 m (5.2 ft) maximum 1.8 m (5.9 ft) Dusky shark: Carcharhinus obscurus
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In this screen capture, Jill Horner a recent transplant to the area from Buffalo, N.Y., captured video of a shark swimming off Hilton Head Island on Sept. 4, 2022, Labor Day weekend.
The smoothtooth blacktip shark (Carcharhinus leiodon) is a species of requiem shark in the family Carcharhinidae. It is known only from the type specimen caught from the Gulf of Aden , off eastern Yemen , and a handful of additional specimens caught from the Persian Gulf , off Kuwait .