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Odontaspididae
raggie
Carcharias taurus
Fierce teeth drifting slowly nearshore
- Tropical
- Northern Hemisphere
- Globally widespread
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- East Asia
- North America
- Oceania
- South America
- Fusiform
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Marine fish
Africa
Fusiform
Largeraggie is a marine fish of Circumtropical. The species occupies marine waters. The species reaches a recorded maximum of 330 cm.
- Class
- Sharks and Rays
- Order
- Mackerel Sharks
- Family
- Odontaspididae
- Genus
- Carcharias
- Maximum length
- 330 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Circumtropical: Except perhaps the eastern Pacific (Ref. 13568 ). Indo-West Pacific: Red Sea and off the coasts of South Africa to Japan, Korea and Australia (Ref. 13568 ). Present in Arafura Sea (Ref. 9819 ). Western Atlantic: Gulf of Maine to Argentina. Old record from Bermuda, south Brazil (Ref. 26938 ). Eastern Atlantic: Mediterranean to Cameroon. Northwest Atlantic: Canada (Ref. 5951 ).
- Conservation status
- CRCritically Endangered
Class
Family
Conservation status
