Atypical characteristics of an albino embryo of Carcharhinus plumbeus (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhinidae) from the Gulf of Gabès (southern Tunisia, central Mediterranean)

Abstract

       An abnormal partially-albino embryo with atypical characteristics was removed from a pregnant female sandbar shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus, caught in the Gulf of Gabès in southern Tunisian, central Mediterranean. The specimen is described and atypical characteristics and albinism in shark species is reviewed.