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Blacktip sharks are one of the most important species to the northwestern Atlantic shark fishery, second only to the sandbar shark (C. plumbeus). The flesh is considered superior to that of the sandbar shark, resulting in the sandbar and other requiem shark species being sold under the name "blacktip shark" in the United States.
The blacktip reef shark has also been known to become aggressive in the presence of bait, and may pose a threat while attempting to steal the catches of spear fishers. [3] The blacktip reef shark is a normal catch of coastal fisheries, such as those operating off Thailand and India, but is not targeted or considered commercially important. [9]
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).
Blacktip reef shark, an Indo-Pacific shark; Blacktip sawtail catshark, a West Pacific shark; Blacktip shark, a widely distributed shark; Blacktip tope, an Indo-West Pacific shark; Blacktip trevally, a jack fish; Smooth tooth blacktip shark, a Gulf of Aden shark; Euchloe charlonia, a butterfly sometimes called the blacktip; Blacktips (FXFL), an ...
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 .
More than a decade after his first shark bite, Cole Taschman, 28, is recovering from another bite he suffered at the same beach. ... Florida, when a roughly 5-foot-long blacktip reef shark clamped ...
Family Chlamydoselachidae (frilled sharks) Genus Chlamydoselachus Garman , 1884 Chlamydoselachus africana Ebert & L. J. V. Compagno , 2009 (Southern African frilled shark)
The blacktip tope (Hypogaleus hyugaensis), also known as pencil shark or blacktip topeshark, is a houndshark of the family Triakidae, and the only member of the genus Hypogaleus. It is found in the deep waters of the continental shelf in the Indo-West Pacific , from East Africa to Japan , at depths between 40 and 230 m.