albimarginatus, Carcharias Rüppell [W. P. E. S.] 1837:64, Pl. 18 (fig. 1) [Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehörig. Fische des Rothen Meeres; ref. 3844] Ras Muhammad, Sinai, Egypt, Red Sea. Lectotype: SMF 3582 (dry and mounted). Lectotype selected by Rosenblatt & Baldwin 1958:151 [ref. 21289], confirmed by Klausewitz 1960:293 [ref. 21330]. •Valid as Carcharhinus albimarginatus (Rüppell 1837) -- (Garrick 1982:116 [ref. 5454], Kyushin et al. 1982:22 [ref. 19754], Dor 1984:5 [ref. 29757], Compagno 1984:455 [ref. 6846], Nakaya in Masuda et al. 1984:6 [ref. 6441], Bass et al. 1986:69 [ref. 5638], Allen & Swainston 1988:22 [ref. 25477], Gubanov & Timoxin 1989:224 [ref. 36138], Paxton et al. 1989:75 [ref. 12442], Winterbottom et al. 1989:4 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:18 [ref. 15987], Allen & Robertson 1994:21 [ref. 22193], Last & Stevens 1994:228 [ref. 23873], Goren & Dor 1994:2 [ref. 25356], Compagno et al. in Fischer et al. 1995:670 [ref. 22829], Randall 1995:28 [ref. 22896], Allen 1997:42 [ref. 23977], Allen & Robertson 1997:817 [ref. 41086], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:28 [ref. 24545], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:73 [ref. 24023], Randall et al. 1997:18 [ref. 25919], Adam et al. 1998:5 [ref. 23610], Compagno & Niem 1998:1325 [ref. 23787], Myers 1999:32 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:18 [ref. 24106], Morón et al. 1999:146 [ref. 24253], Compagno 1999:483 [ref. 25589], Allen 2000:83 [ref. 37268], Nakabo 2000:137 [ref. 25086], Compagno in Randall & Lim 2000:579 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:89 [ref. 25191], Randall & Earle 2000:5 [ref. 25806], Hutchins 2001:14 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:137 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:21 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S92 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:609 [ref. 27495], Baranes 2003:35 [ref. 27888], Espinosa Pérez et al. 2004:49 [ref. 27705], Bonfil & Abdallah 2004:26 [ref. 27735], Nelson et al. 2004:53 [ref. 27807], Heemstra et al. 2004:3316 [ref. 27945], Compagno et al. 2005:35 [ref. 29145], Love et al. 2005:7 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:88 [ref. 28379], Randall 2005:10 [ref. 28239], Hoese et al. 2006:98 [ref. 29001], Randall 2007:30 [ref. 30952], Béarez & Séret 2009:144 [ref. 36646], Fricke et al. 2009:8 [ref. 30213], Kimura 2009:11 [ref. 30426], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:187 [ref. 30957], Last el al. 2010:86 [ref. 32461], Fricke et al. 2011:345 [ref. 31242], Voigt & Weber 2011:39 [ref. 31424], Castro 2011:397 [ref. 31457], White 2012:3 [ref. 31843], Allen & Erdmann 2012:56 [ref. 31980], Naylor et al. 2012:21 [ref. 32267] with two species, Fricke et al. 2013:250 [ref. 32706], Page et al. 2013:51 [ref. 32708], Ebert et al. 2013:329 [ref. 33045], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:4 [ref. 33988], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:88 [ref. 34398], Weigmann 2016:17 [ref. 34211], Fourriére et al. 2016:440 [ref. 34668], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:605 [ref. 34923], White et al. 2017:126 [ref. 35860], Ehemann et al. 2018:21 [ref. 36194], Fricke et al. 2018:12 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:10 [ref. 36273], Kumar et al. 2018:296 [ref. 36178], White & Ko'ou 2018:31 [ref. 35922], Fricke et al. 2019:39 [ref. 36673], Zajonz et al. 2019:58 [ref. 36871], Calle-Morán et al. 2020:242 [ref. 37881], Psomadakis et al. 2020:173 [ref. 37272], Bessudo et al. 2021:[3] 1771 [ref. 39107], Durville et al. 2021:310 [ref. 38802], Ebert et al. 2021:60 [ref. 38234], González-Acosta et al. 2021:6 [ref. 38361], Love et al. 2021:17 [ref. 39279], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:16 [ref. 41223], Grove et al. 2022:15 [ref. 41326], Moazzam & Osmany 2022:204 [ref. 40666], Winton & Ebert 2022:514 [ref. 39667], Zajonz et al. 2022:7 [ref. 40522], Page et al. 2023:39 [ref. 40505], Allen & Erdmann 2024:57 [ref. 40796], Fricke et al. 2024:69 [ref. 41622]). Current status: Valid as Carcharhinus albimarginatus (Rüppell 1837). Carcharhinidae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.), north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to northern Australia, New Caledonia and Tuamotu Archipelago; eastern Pacific: Pacific coast of southern Baja California Sur (Mexico) south to Ecuador, including Gulf of California (Mexico), Clipperton Island (France), Cocos Island (Costa Rica), Malpelo Island (Colombia) and Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). Habitat: marine.