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Carcharhinidae
night shark
Carcharhinus signatus
Green eyes and long snout six hundred meters deep
night shark is a marine fish found around Western Atlantic. It inhabits marine waters. The largest recorded length is 280 cm.
- Class
- Sharks and Rays
- Order
- Ground Sharks
- Family
- Carcharhinidae
- Genus
- Carcharhinus
- Maximum length
- 280 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: Delaware to Florida (USA), Bahamas, and Cuba; southern Brazil, Argentina (Ref. 244 ). Eastern Atlantic: Senegal to Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana to Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, off northern Namibia (Ref. 244 , 5578 ).

