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

J Fish Biol

Laboratório de Pesquisa de Elasmobrânquios, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP, Campus do Litoral Paulista, Praça Infante D. Henrique, s/n, São Vicente, SP, 11330-900, Brazil.

Published: February 2018

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 Paraná coast in south-eastern Brazil. This occurrence is hypothesized to have been caused by either a human introduction or a remarkably long oceanic displacement.

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