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Carcharhinidae
pigeye shark
Carcharhinus amboinensis
Small eyes and blunt snout beside bull sharks
- Tropical
- Transcontinental
- Atlantic Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Oceania
- South Asia
- Southeast Asia
- Fusiform
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Atlantic Ocean
Africa
Fusiform
Largepigeye shark is known around Eastern Atlantic as a fish; Records give a maximum length of 280 cm, and its body is fusiform body.
- Class
- Sharks and Rays
- Order
- Ground Sharks
- Family
- Carcharhinidae
- Genus
- Carcharhinus
- Maximum length
- 280 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Eastern Atlantic: Nigeria. Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf (Ref. 68964 ), Gulf of Aden, South Africa, Madagascar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea (Ref. 6871 ), and Australia. Also reported from the Mediterranean (Ref. 83386 ). Often confused with sympatric Carcharhinus leucas and Glyphis gangeticus but the three are distinguishable.
- Conservation status
- VUVulnerable
Class
Family
Conservation status
