IUCN Red List Assessment
Red List Category
EN
Endangered
Red List Criteria
C2a(ii)
Version
3.1
Year Assessed
2009
Assessor/s
Compagno, L.J.V.
Reviewer/s
Musick, J.A. & Fowler, S.L. (Shark Red List Authority)
Contributor/s
Justification
This assessment is based on the information published in the 2005 shark status survey (Fowler et al. 2005).
The Borneo Shark (Carcharhinus borneensis) is known from very few records (most from Borneo), none of which are more recent than 1937. It was not recorded in the extensive George Vanderbilt Foundation shark collections in Thailand and Hong Kong (housed at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, USA), the 1996/97 IUCN/SSC Shark Specialist Group and Sabah Fisheries Department survey of marine sharks in markets in Sabah, Borneo (Malaysia), or the 2000/01 WWF shark biodiversity study in the Philippines. Past records of this species are all from areas that have been and are being heavily exploited by artisanal and commercial fisheries and it is likely that these activities have detrimentally affected the Borneo Shark population.
The Borneo Shark (Carcharhinus borneensis) is known from very few records (most from Borneo), none of which are more recent than 1937. It was not recorded in the extensive George Vanderbilt Foundation shark collections in Thailand and Hong Kong (housed at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, USA), the 1996/97 IUCN/SSC Shark Specialist Group and Sabah Fisheries Department survey of marine sharks in markets in Sabah, Borneo (Malaysia), or the 2000/01 WWF shark biodiversity study in the Philippines. Past records of this species are all from areas that have been and are being heavily exploited by artisanal and commercial fisheries and it is likely that these activities have detrimentally affected the Borneo Shark population.
History
- 2000Endangered
