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Carcharhinidae
spottail shark
Carcharhinus sorrah
Seabed by day surface by night
spottail shark is a fish from Indo-West Pacific. The species reaches a recorded maximum of 160 cm. Its body is fusiform body.
- Class
- Sharks and Rays
- Order
- Ground Sharks
- Family
- Carcharhinidae
- Genus
- Carcharhinus
- Maximum length
- 160 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf (Ref. 68964 ), Red Sea and East Africa (including Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles) to the Philippines, north to China, south to Australia. Also from Vanikolo Island (Santa Cruz Islands) and the Solomon Islands. Possibly occurring in the Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman and Sri Lanka (Ref. 9997 ).
- Conservation status
- NTNear Threatened

