Short-tail nurse shark | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Order: | Orectolobiformes |
Family: | Ginglymostomatidae |
Genus: | Pseudoginglymostoma Dingerkus, 1986 |
Species: | P. brevicaudatum |
Binomial name | |
Pseudoginglymostoma brevicaudatum (Günther, 1867) |
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Range of short-tail nurse shark (in blue) |
The short-tail nurse shark, Pseudoginglymostoma brevicaudatum, is a nurse shark in the family Ginglymostomatidae, the only member of the genus Pseudoginglymostoma. It is found in the tropical western Indian Ocean between latitudes 0° and 27° S, and reaches a length of 75 cm.