Common names
Human’s Whaler Shark

Short Description
Orignal description of WHITE & WEIGMANN, 2014 [21012]: "A small species of Carcharhinus with: a moderately long and narrowly rounded snout; interdorsal space with a weak ridge usually present on midline, 20.4–22.0% TL; first dorsal fin moderately tall and slightly falcate, origin just anterior to pectoral-fin free rear tip, length 13.4–14.6% TL, 1.3–1.5 times height, inner margin 1.7–2.3 times in base; second dorsal fin broadly triangular, height 39–48% of first dorsal-fin height, origin about opposite to anal-fin origin; anal fin falcate, height 0.8–1.0 times second dorsal height, base 0.9–1.2 times second dorsal-fin base; colour pale brownish to grey dorsally, whitish ventrally; second dorsal fin with a black blotch on upper one to two thirds of fin, not extending onto upper surface of body and strongly demarcated from ground colour; most other fins with whitish outer margins; total vertebral counts 153–160 in the four type specimens (152–167 in Bass et al., 1973); precaudal counts 75–79 (74–85 in Bass et al., 1973); monospondylous precaudal counts 45–48; diplospondylous precaudal counts 27–32; diplospondylous caudal counts 78–81"

Distribution
western Indian Ocean near the Socotra Islands, off Kuwait, Mozambique, and South Africa [21012]

Size / Weight / Age
364–828 mm TL (types) [21012]

Habitat
marine; depth range -43 m [21012]

Dentition
Orignal description of WHITE & WEIGMANN, 2014 [21012]: "upper anterior teeth oblique and blade-like, coarsely serrated, lateral margin deeply notched and with several large, smooth basal cusplets; lower anterior teeth narrower, slightly oblique, lateral margins notched and usually several smooth basal cusplets; total tooth row counts 24–26/22–25, or 46–50"

Remarks
shark-references Species-ID=14062;