| Spottail shark | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Carcharhiniformes |
| Family: | Carcharhinidae |
| Genus: | Carcharhinus |
| Species: | C. sorrah |
| Binomial name | |
| Carcharhinus sorrah (J. P. Müller & Henle, 1839) |
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| Range of the spottail shark | |
The spottail shark (Carcharhinus sorrah) is a species of requiem shark, family Carcharhinidae, found in the Indo-West Pacific oceans waters between latitudes 31° N and 31° S, from the surface to 140 m. Its length is up to about 1.6 m.