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Carcharhinidae
smalltail shark
Carcharhinus porosus
Long pointed snout enters waters under thirty six meters
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Atlantic Ocean
- North America
- South America
- Southeast Asia
- Fusiform
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Atlantic Ocean
Fusiform
Largesmalltail shark is a fish from Western Atlantic. Records give a maximum length of 150 cm. Its body is fusiform body.
- Class
- Sharks and Rays
- Order
- Ground Sharks
- Family
- Carcharhinidae
- Genus
- Carcharhinus
- Maximum length
- 150 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: upper Gulf of Mexico, to southern Brazil; recorded from Uruguay (Ref. 58839 ). Specimens of porosus from Borneo, Viet Nam and Thailand may represent an undescribed small species of Carcharhinus .
- Conservation status
- CRCritically Endangered
Class
Family
Conservation status
