Where does the Whitetip Shark live?

Triaenodon obesus has 33,552 records in 63 countries and territories, from 1868 to 2026. Most records come from Australia.

33,552 records
63 places
64 years recorded
Elasmobranchii class

AnimaliaChordataElasmobranchiiCarcharhiniformesCarcharhinidaeTriaenodon

When it is recorded

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Peak month: April. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

Place	Records	Share
Australia	26,483
Ecuador	1,050
United States	833
New Caledonia	549
Maldives	426
United States Minor Outlying Islands	414
Indonesia	385
Panama	371
Mexico	346
Costa Rica	341
Fiji	339
Northern Mariana Islands	248
Colombia	214
French Polynesia	212
Philippines	193
Palau	138
Malaysia	132
Egypt	108
Marshall Islands	90
American Samoa	89
Seychelles	61
South Africa	58
Japan	47
Micronesia	44
Saudi Arabia	39
Solomon Islands	27
Cocos Islands	25
Papua New Guinea	25
Kiribati	24
Vanuatu	17
Cook Islands	16
Guam	16
Niue	15
Tuvalu	15
Tonga	14
India	13
Christmas Island	12
Thailand	12
Kenya	11
Mozambique	9

Showing the top 40 of 63 places.

Related animals

Others in the family Carcharhinidae.

Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.