Where Silvertip shark has been recorded
GBIF occurrence records for Carcharhinus albimarginatus, mapped and tabulated by country.
19,609 georeferenced occurrence records with coordinates are published for Carcharhinus albimarginatus through GBIF, from 58 countries or marine areas. This page maps those records and lists where they come from. Occurrence records reflect where people have looked as well as where the species lives, so well-surveyed coastlines are over-represented.
- Georeferenced records
- 19,609
- Countries / areas
- 58
- Mapped locations
- 111
- Records sampled for the map
- 3,000
- Inland records omitted
- 7
- Gbif taxonkey
- 2418003
Countries and areas with the most records (GBIF)
Australia — 15,176 records; Faroe Islands — 1,853 records; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland — 879 records; Svalbard and Jan Mayen — 633 records; Iceland — 170 records; French Polynesia — 100 records; Germany — 92 records; Mexico — 88 records; Maldives — 36 records; New Caledonia — 36 records; Mozambique — 35 records; Micronesia (Federated States of) — 31 records; Fiji — 22 records; Marshall Islands — 21 records; Mauritania — 17 records.
Source: GBIF Occurrence Search (taxonKey 2418003) — https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?taxon_key=2418003&has_coordinate=true (records CC0 / CC BY). Accessed 2026-09-23.
Marine regions with a WoRMS distribution record
Eritrean Exclusive Economic Zone; Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone; Kenyan Exclusive Economic Zone; Tanzanian Exclusive Economic Zone; Madagascar; Seychellois Exclusive Economic Zone; Mauritian Exclusive Economic Zone; Réunion Exclusive Economic Zone; Comoran Exclusive Economic Zone; Red Sea; Aldabra; Chagos; South Africa (country); Rodrigues; Djiboutian Exclusive Economic Zone; Somali Exclusive Economic Zone; Western Indian Ocean.
Source: WoRMS distribution records (MarineRegions) — https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217352 (CC BY 4.0). Accessed 2026-09-23.
How to read this map
The map plots a sample of 3,000 of the 19,609 records, deduplicated to a half-degree grid, so dense areas do not merge into one blob. The sample covers 31 of the 58 countries or areas with records; the areas absent from the sample hold 3,710 records in total (Faroe Islands, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Iceland, Germany, Mauritania, Norway, French Southern Territories).
7 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 2418003) — https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?taxon_key=2418003&has_coordinate=true (records CC0 / CC BY); WoRMS distribution records (MarineRegions) — https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217352 (CC BY 4.0); Natural Earth 110m basemap — https://www.naturalearthdata.com/ (public domain). Accessed 2026-09-23.
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