altima, Eulamia Springer [S.] 1950:9 [American Museum Novitates No. 1451; ref. 4172] Off Cosgrove Reef, Key West, Florida, U.S.A., depth 95 fathoms. Holotype: USNM 133828. Paratypes: (26, probably discarded). Type catalog: Howe & Springer 1993:3 [ref. 21812]. •Valid as Carcharhinus altimus (Springer 1950) -- (Garrick 1982:142 [ref. 5454], Dor 1984:5 [ref. 29757], Compagno 1984:457 [ref. 6846], Bass et al. 1986:69 [ref. 5638], Robins & Ray 1986:24 [ref. 23100], Allen & Swainston 1988:22 [ref. 25477], Gubanov & Timoxin 1989:224 [ref. 36138], Paxton et al. 1989:75 [ref. 12442], Springer 1990:102 [ref. 19320], Randall et al. 1990:18 [ref. 15987], Cervigón 1992:170 [ref. 23827], Baranes & Golani 1993:301 [ref. 22372], Allen & Robertson 1994:21 [ref. 22193], Last & Stevens 1994:230 [ref. 23873], Bussing & López S. 1994:16 [ref. 23101], Goren & Dor 1994:2 [ref. 25356], Compagno et al. in Fischer et al. 1995:671 [ref. 22829], Randall 1995:28 [ref. 22896], Golani 1996:20 [ref. 22271], Allen 1997:42 [ref. 23977], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:28 [ref. 24545], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:80 [ref. 24023], Randall et al. 1997:18 [ref. 25919], Adam et al. 1998:5 [ref. 23610], Compagno & Niem 1998:1326 [ref. 23787], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:75 [ref. 23897], Chirichigno F. & Vélez D. 1998:54 [ref. 24555], Morón et al. 1999:146 [ref. 24253], Cervigón & Alcalá 1999:53 [ref. 24490], Compagno 1999:483 [ref. 25589], Compagno in Randall & Lim 2000:579 [ref. 25122], Grace 2001:25 [ref. 25694], Hutchins 2001:14 [ref. 25847], Soto 2001:64, 75 [ref. 26637], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:14 [ref. 26753], Gadig & Gomes in Menezes et al. 2003:23 [ref. 27192], Compagno 2003:476 [ref. 26984], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S92 [ref. 27377], Espinosa Pérez et al. 2004:50 [ref. 27705], Bonfil & Abdallah 2004:27 [ref. 27735], Nelson et al. 2004:53 [ref. 27807], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:57 [ref. 28072], Compagno et al. 2005:35 [ref. 29145], Golani 2005:10 [ref. 37112], Love et al. 2005:7 [ref. 37547], Mundy 2005:89 [ref. 28379], Hoese et al. 2006:98 [ref. 29001], Fricke et al. 2007:14 [ref. 29533], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:187 [ref. 30957], Zenetos et al. 2010:410 [ref. 31201], Castro 2011:400 [ref. 31457], Henderson & Reeve 2011:171 [ref. 38995], Voigt & Weber 2011:41 [ref. 31424], Naylor et al. 2012:26 [ref. 32267] see remarks, White 2012:3 [ref. 31843], Ebert et al. 2013:329 [ref. 33045], Page et al. 2013:51 [ref. 32708], Wirtz et al. 2013:115 [ref. 32972], Psomadakis et al. 2015:79 [ref. 34104], Compagno 2016:1296 [ref. 34544], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:90 [ref. 34398], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:605 [ref. 34923], Duffy & Scott 2016:188 [ref. 34780], Fourriére et al. 2016:452 [ref. 34668], Weigmann 2016:17 [ref. 34211], Duffy & Struthers 2017:132 [ref. 35604], White et al. 2017:128 [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], Tyabji et al. 2018:11 [ref. 36598], White & Ko'ou 2018:31 [ref. 35922], Almeida & Biscoito 2019:82 [ref. 37302], Carneiro et al. 2019:24 [ref. 37250], Ehemann et al. 2019:[3] [ref. 36861], Fricke et al. 2019:40 [ref. 36673], Bariche & Fricke 2020:8 [ref. 37515], Calle-Morán et al. 2020:242 [ref. 37881], Kabasakal 2020:85 [ref. 37952], Psomadakis et al. 2020:173 [ref. 37272], Serena et al. 2020:502 [ref. 37963], Ebert et al. 2021:60 [ref. 38234], Golani 2021:7 [ref. 38303], González-Acosta et al. 2021:6 [ref. 38361], Kovačić et al. 2021:9 [ref. 39014], Love et al. 2021:17 [ref. 39279], Barone et al. 2022:17 [ref. 39527], Blanco-Parra & Niño-Torres 2022:Correction, p. 3 [ref. 38986], Fermon et al. 2022:94 [ref. 39448], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:16 [ref. 41223], Grove et al. 2022:15 [ref. 41326], Moazzam & Osmany 2022:201 [ref. 40666], Winton & Ebert 2022:514 [ref. 39667], Carvalho-Filho 2023:305 [ref. 40480], Castillo Domínguez et al. 2023:5 [ref. 40663], Page et al. 2023:40 [ref. 40505], Fricke et al. 2024:70 [ref. 41622]). Current status: Valid as Carcharhinus altimus (Springer 1950). Carcharhinidae. Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and warm temperate seas (including Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Gulf of California/Mexico). IUCN (2020): Near Threatened. Habitat: marine.