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title: "Tiburón de Coates"
description: "Carcharhinus coatesi — Peces. The Australian blackspot shark or Coates's shark (Carcharhinus coatesi) is a species of requiem shark found off northern Australia (from Shark Bay in Western Australia to K'gari in Queensland) and possibly also off the coast of New Guinea."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/es/animal/whitecheek-shark-carcharhinus-coatesi
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Tiburón de Coates

> Carcharhinus coatesi — Peces. The Australian blackspot shark or Coates's shark (Carcharhinus coatesi) is a species of requiem shark found off northern Australia (from Shark Bay in Western Australia to K'gari in Queensland) and possibly also off the coast of New Guinea.

- Scientific name: *Carcharhinus coatesi*
- Category: `fish` (Peces)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mar y costa)
- iNaturalist observations: 10
- Wikidata: [Q1035604](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1035604)
- iNaturalist taxon: [529723](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/529723)

## Names

- en: Whitecheek Shark
- es: Tiburón de Coates

## Countries with the most observations

AU (10)

## Summary

The Australian blackspot shark or Coates's shark (Carcharhinus coatesi) is a species of requiem shark found off northern Australia (from Shark Bay in Western Australia to K'gari in Queensland) and possibly also off the coast of New Guinea. It belongs to a species complex of blackspot sharks in the family Carcharhinidae. These sharks are not widely studied due to their cryptic nature, but there was a recent reclassification distinguishing it from the whitecheek shark (Carcharhinus dussumieri) and the blackspot shark (Carcharhinus sealei) in 2012. Much of the existing literature predates this reclassification and groups…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_blackspot_shark

## Photo

![Tiburón de Coates](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/whitecheek-shark-carcharhinus-coatesi/medium.jpg)

Photo: Peter Shanks · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/529723

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/whitecheek-shark-carcharhinus-coatesi?lang=es` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).