Spottail shark

Spottail shark
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)
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.

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