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title: "Pacific Smalltail Shark"
description: "Carcharhinus cerdale — Peixes. The Pacific smalltail shark (Carcharhinus cerdale) is a species of requiem shark, in the family Carcharhinidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/pacific-smalltail-shark
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Pacific Smalltail Shark

> Carcharhinus cerdale — Peixes. The Pacific smalltail shark (Carcharhinus cerdale) is a species of requiem shark, in the family Carcharhinidae.

- Scientific name: *Carcharhinus cerdale*
- Category: `fish` (Peixes)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mar e costa)
- iNaturalist observations: 2
- Wikidata: [Q7122789](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7122789)
- iNaturalist taxon: [607426](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/607426)

## Names

- en: Pacific Smalltail Shark
- de: Pazifischer Zwerghai
- es: Tiburón cola blanca del Pacífico
- nl: Pacific smalltail shark

## Summary

The Pacific smalltail shark (Carcharhinus cerdale) is a species of requiem shark, in the family Carcharhinidae. It was described in 1898, but later mistakenly merged with Carcharhinus porosus. The mistake was corrected in 2011.
It is relatively small with skin of a light-brownish color, and it can be found in the Pacific Ocean. Not much is known about this species, and no attacks on humans from this animal have been recorded. It resembles the copper shark and a sand tiger shark, yet it is much smaller than both.  It also has a small, slender body, and five gills in front of its pectoral fins.

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

## Photo

![Pacific Smalltail Shark](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/pacific-smalltail-shark/medium.jpg)

Photo: D Ross Robertson · Public domain · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/607426

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/pacific-smalltail-shark?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).