Human introduction or natural dispersion? Atlantic Ocean occurrence of the Indo-Pacific whitetip reef shark Triaenodon obesus

Bornatowski, Hugo; Loose, Robin; Sampaio, Cláudio Luis Santos; Gadig, Otto Bismarck Fazzano; Carvalho-Filho, Alfredo; Domingues, Rodrigo Rodrigues [UNIFESP]

Human introduction or natural dispersion? Atlantic Ocean occurrence of the Indo-Pacific whitetip reef shark Triaenodon obesus

Data

2018

Autores

Bornatowski, Hugo

Loose, Robin

Sampaio, Cláudio Luis Santos

Gadig, Otto Bismarck Fazzano

Carvalho-Filho, Alfredo

Mostrar mais

Tipo

Artigo

Resumo

Occurrence of multiple whitetip reef sharks Triaenodon obesus in the Atlantic Ocean is reported for the first time from near a sunken ferry off the Parana coast in south-eastern Brazil. This occurrence is hypothesized to have been caused by either a human introduction or a remarkably long oceanic displacement.

Citação

Journal Of Fish Biology. Hoboken, v. 92, n. 2, p. 537-542, 2018.