Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico Author Love, Milton S. 0000-0003-0981-0061 love@lifesci.ucsb.edu Author Bizzarro, Joseph J. 0000-0002-2412-9357 joe.bizzarro@noaa.gov Author Cornthwaite, Maria 0000-0002-1528-3272 maria.cornthwaite@dfo-mpo.gc.ca Author Frable, Benjamin W. 0000-0003-4525-0671 bfrable@ucsd.edu Author Maslenikov, Katherine P. 0000-0003-0981-0061 love@lifesci.ucsb.edu text Zootaxa 2021 2021-10-19 5053 1 1 285 journal article 2792 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 75ffcff3-6336-4f6a-8d0b-94c082519099 1175-5326 5578008 295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 Carcharhinus galapagensis (Snodgrass & Heller, 1905) . Galapagos Shark . To at least 3.0 m ( 12.1 ft ) TL and possibly to 3.7 m ( 14.1 ft ) TL (Weigman 2016). Circumglobal in tropical waters; western Pacific Ocean north to Ogasawara Islands (Yoshino and Aonuma in Nakabo 2002 ); patchily distributed from central Baja California (Compagno et al. in Fischer et al. 1995 ), and Rocas Alijos, southern Baja California ( Gotshall 1996 ), to Peru ( Cornejo et al. 2015 ), and Easter Island ( Chirichigno and Vélez 1998 ), including Gulf of California (Compagno et al. in Fischer et al. 1995 ) and Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997 ). Depth: surface to 371 m ( 1,217 ft ) (min.: Allen and Robertson 2015 ; max.: Weijerman et al. 2019 ). Possibly a synonym of Carcharhinus obscurus ( Naylor et al. 2012 ) . Pazmiño et al. (2019) reported on a number of individuals that were hybrids of C. galapagensis and Carcharhinus obscurus (Lesueur, 1818) in the eastern Pacific Ocean.