blacktip shark
carcharhinus limbatus latin

The blacktip shark also performs this behavior, though not as often.

Blacktip sharks are responsible annually for 16% of the shark attacks around Florida.

At end of the fishery, Australian blacktip shark numbers were estimated to have been diminished by around 50%.

Blacktip sharks, eagle rays and large ocean fish are among the reef's residents.

Steve Backshall gets up close and personal with a pack of 30 hungry blacktip sharks.

More work is required to fully resolve the relationship between the blacktip shark and other Carcharhinus species.

Not to be confused with the blacktip shark, Carcharhinus limbatus.

The blacktip shark has a worldwide distribution in tropical and subtropical waters.

Although an individual may be found some distance offshore, blacktip sharks do not inhabit oceanic waters.

As with other requiem sharks, the blacktip shark exhibits vivipary.

There are reports of blacktip sharks showing curiosity towards divers, but remaining at a safe distance.

The blacktip shark has a robust, streamlined body with a long, pointed snout and relatively small eyes.

Genetic data suggest Australian blacktip sharks across northern Australia are all members of a single population.

The blacktip shark is an extremely fast, energetic predator that is usually found in groups of varying size.

It is likely also caught by other fisheries across its range, going unreported owing to confusion with the blacktip shark.

The species itself is known to be prey for sharks including the blacktip shark, Carcharhinus tilstoni.

Like other members of its family, the blacktip shark is viviparous; females bear 1-10 pups every other year.

Blacktip sharks can temporarily lose almost all their colors during blooms, or "whitings", of coccolithophores.

There are examples of parthenogenesis in the hammerhead shark and the blacktip shark.

The United States and Australia are the only two countries that manage fisheries catching blacktip sharks.

Some uncertainty exists in the distribution data for the spinner shark due to confusion with the blacktip shark.

The blacktip shark is popular with recreational anglers in Florida, the Caribbean, and South Africa.

The Australian blacktip shark is among the sharks most commonly caught by northern Australian commercial fisheries.

Not to be confused with the blacktip shark, Carcharhinus limbatus.

The blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus) is a species of requiem shark, family Carcharhinidae.

The blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus), flatworm (Dugesia tigrina) and some other species can reproduce either sexually or asexually depending on various conditions.

Many predators feed on the milk shark, including larger sharks such as the blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus) and Australian blacktip shark (Carcharhinus tilstoni), and possibly also marine mammals.

To crack their shells, the horn shark generates the highest known bite force relative to its size of any shark, well in excess of other measured species such as the spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias) and the blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus).