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Ginglymostomatidae
sand shark
Ginglymostoma cirratum
Young hide among red mangrove prop roots
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Atlantic Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Central America and the Caribbean
- Europe
- North America
- South America
- Elongated
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Atlantic Ocean
Elongated
Largesand shark is known from Western Central Atlantic as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.
- Class
- Sharks and Rays
- Order
- Carpet Sharks
- Family
- Ginglymostomatidae
- Genus
- Ginglymostoma
- Maximum length
- 430 cm
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Western Central Atlantic: Rhode Island to southern Brazil (south to Rio de Janeiro), including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean coasts, although (exceptionally from Rhode Island to Texas), Bermuda; Eastern Central Atlantic: Cape Verde Islands, Senegal, Cameroon to Gabon, and rarely north to Bay of Biscaye, France (ref. 43278 ). Populations in eastern Pacific refer to Ginglymostoma unami Del Moral-Flores et al., 2015 (Ref. 113902 ).
- Conservation status
- VUVulnerable
Class
Family
Conservation status
