Short Description
A small species of Carcharhinus with a relatively long and bluntly pointed snout; upper anterior teeth oblique and blade-like, coarsely serrated, lateral margin deeply notched and with several large and serrated basal cusplets; lower anterior teeth narrower, slightly oblique, lateral margins notched and without large basal serrae, finely serrated; total tooth row counts 26–28/24–30 rows or 51–55; second dorsal fin much smaller than first, broadly triangular; colour pale brownish dorsally, whitish ventrally; second dorsal fin with a black blotch on upper third of fin, not extending onto upper surface of body and very well defined from whitish region below; other fins mostly plain; total vertebral counts 113–129;

Distribution
from Indonesia and Taiwan, also recorded from off Borneo, not found in Australia or New Guinea, where it is replaced by C. coatesi Source: www.gbif.org

Biology
males first mature at 751–775 mm TL; one pregnant female contained two late-term embryos (278 and 285 mm TL)

Size / Weight / Age
342–812 mm TL;

Habitat
marine; depth range about 100 m depth

Remarks
shark-references Species-ID=846; no entry in fishbase, all data from WHITE, W.T. 2012 A redescription of Carcharhinus dussumieri and C. sealei, with resurrection of C. coatesi and C. tjutjot as valid species (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhinidae). Zootaxa, 3241: 1-34

Parasites (arranged by Jürgen Pollerspöck)
Copepoda

• Perissopus dentatus Steenstrup & Lütken, 1861 [16583]
• Pseudopandarus longus (Gnanamuthu, 1951) [16583] [25052]