Blacktip Reef Shark
Welcome to our website on the Blacktip Reef Shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus). On this website you will find an abundance of information on this organism. The Blacktip Reef Shark is quite a noticeable shark if you see it in the waters. As the name refers, you can easily distinguish it from other sharks by its black tip on its fins.
If you are curious about the history of the Black Tip Reef
Shark, and its taxonomy, our
Classification page explains the phylogenetic breakdown.
Different species of sharks exist in all different locations of
water. This specific species of shark lives in the Indo-Pacific
waters. The Habitat section explains
the type of environment that the shark prefers.
The Adaptation,
Reproduction and
Interaction pages talk about
the lifestyle of the shark.
Our website, created on the Blacktip Reef Shark, is just one of
many organism websites that are linked to a whole at
MultipleOrganisms.net.
Here you will find many different websites all apart of a large
project for the Organismal Biology classes at the University of
Wisconsin - La Crosse. At MultipleOrganisms.net there are a variety
of other organisms such as
The Long-Finned Pilot Whale (Globicephala melas),
The Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) and
The Coconut Octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus) ,just to
name a few, that you can learn a large quantity of
information about.
Check out this video of these sharks, can you spot the Blacktip Reef Sharks? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNFLtxenW_g