Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey, 1865)
Synonyms:
Squalus longimanus Poey, 1861, Mem.... hist. nat.... Cuba, 2: 338 (Cuba). Type: unknown.
? Squalus lamia Risso, 1810, in part, Ichthyol. Nice: 25 (Mediterranean; a combination of a Carcharhinus and Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758)). Type unknown.
? Carcharias lamia: Risso, 1826, Hist. nat. Eur. mérid., 3: 126 (Mediterranean; not Carcharias lamia Rafinesque, 1810, which is a junior synonym of Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758)).
Carcharias (Prionodon) lamia: Müller and Henle, 1841: 37, pl. 12 | Günther, 1870: 372.
Prionodon longimanus: Poey, 1861, Mem.... hist. nat.... Cuba, 2: pl. 19 (fig. 9-10).
Carcharhinus longimanus: Maul, 1955: 4, fig. 9-12.
Common names:
Oceanic whitetip shark [UK and USA]
Requin a longues nageoires [France and Belgium]
Tiburon oceanico [Spain]