Where Milk shark has been recorded

Countries and areas with the most records (GBIF)

Australia — 2,102 records; Cameroon — 215 records; Mauritania — 183 records; Papua New Guinea — 133 records; Nigeria — 118 records; Mozambique — 113 records; Gabon — 78 records; Ghana — 77 records; Côte d’Ivoire — 71 records; Liberia — 63 records; Guinea-Bissau — 52 records; Sierra Leone — 50 records; Guinea — 41 records; South Africa — 40 records; Madagascar — 39 records.

Source: GBIF Occurrence Search (taxonKey 2417866) — https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?taxon_key=2417866&has_coordinate=true (records CC0 / CC BY). Accessed 2026-09-28.

Marine regions with a WoRMS distribution record

European waters (ERMS scope); Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone; Kenyan Exclusive Economic Zone; Tanzanian Exclusive Economic Zone; Madagascar; Somali Exclusive Economic Zone; Red Sea; Eritrean Exclusive Economic Zone; Mauritian Exclusive Economic Zone; Seychellois Exclusive Economic Zone; South Africa (country); Djiboutian Exclusive Economic Zone; Mediterranean Sea; Greek Exclusive Economic Zone; Italian part of the Ionian Sea.

Source: WoRMS distribution records (MarineRegions) — https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=105802 (CC BY 4.0). Accessed 2026-09-28.

How to read this map

The map plots a sample of 3,000 of the 3,646 records, deduplicated to a half-degree grid, so dense areas do not merge into one blob. The sample covers 45 of the 55 countries or areas with records; the areas absent from the sample hold 72 records in total (Sierra Leone, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Yemen, Bangladesh, China, Djibouti, Hong Kong, Cambodia).

88 records plotting inland were omitted: for a marine species those are almost always the holding institution's coordinates rather than a collection site.

Records show where the species has been observed and reported, not a modelled range.

Source: GBIF Occurrence Search (taxonKey 2417866) — https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?taxon_key=2417866&has_coordinate=true (records CC0 / CC BY); WoRMS distribution records (MarineRegions) — https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=105802 (CC BY 4.0); Natural Earth 110m basemap — https://www.naturalearthdata.com/ (public domain). Accessed 2026-09-28.