Negaprion brevirostris

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	CHONDRICHTHYES	CARCHARHINIFORMES	CARCHARHINIDAE

Scientific Name:

Negaprion brevirostris

Species Authority

(Poey, 1868)

Common Name/s:

English

–

Lemon Shark

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Lower Risk/near threatened ver 2.3
Year Assessed:	2000
Assessor/s	Gruber, S. & Sundström, L.F.
Evaluator/s:	Musick, J.A. & Fowler, S. (Shark Red List Authority)
Justification: This large slow-growing coastal shark is common on Atlantic coasts from the US to Brazil and possibly in some west African countries, and in the Pacific from Baja California to Ecuador. Young sharks remain in sheltered coastal nurseries, some of which are subject to habitat degradation. Adults may undertake long seasonal migrations. The species is caught in largely unmanaged commercial and recreational fisheries, and there is increasing evidence of local population depletion in the Eastern Pacific and West Atlantic.

Geographic Range [top]

Countries:	Native: Antigua and Barbuda; Aruba; Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; Bermuda; Brazil; Cape Verde; Cayman Islands; Colombia; Costa Rica; Cuba; Côte d'Ivoire; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; El Salvador; French Guiana; Gambia; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Guatemala; Guyana; Haiti; Honduras; Jamaica; Martinique; Mexico; Montserrat; Netherlands Antilles; Nicaragua; Panama; Peru; Puerto Rico; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Senegal; Suriname; Trinidad and Tobago; Turks and Caicos Islands; United States; Vanuatu; Venezuela; Virgin Islands, British; Virgin Islands, U.S.
FAO Marine Fishing Areas:	Native: Atlantic – northwest; Atlantic – western central; Atlantic – southwest; Atlantic – eastern central; Pacific – southeast; Pacific – eastern central Presence uncertain: Atlantic – southeast

Countries:

Native:

Antigua and Barbuda; Aruba; Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; Bermuda; Brazil; Cape Verde; Cayman Islands; Colombia; Costa Rica; Cuba; Côte d'Ivoire; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; El Salvador; French Guiana; Gambia; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Guatemala; Guyana; Haiti; Honduras; Jamaica; Martinique; Mexico; Montserrat; Netherlands Antilles; Nicaragua; Panama; Peru; Puerto Rico; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Senegal; Suriname; Trinidad and Tobago; Turks and Caicos Islands; United States; Vanuatu; Venezuela; Virgin Islands, British; Virgin Islands, U.S.

FAO Marine Fishing Areas:

Native:

Atlantic – northwest; Atlantic – western central; Atlantic – southwest; Atlantic – eastern central; Pacific – southeast; Pacific – eastern central

Presence uncertain:

Atlantic – southeast

Population [top]

Population Trend:	Unknown

Population Trend:

Unknown

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Systems:	Marine

Systems:

Marine

Threats [top]

Conservation Actions [top]

Citation:	Gruber, S. & Sundström, L.F. 2000. Negaprion brevirostris. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 23 November 2008.
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