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Ginglymostoma

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Kingdom
  
Scientific name
  
Ginglymostoma

Higher classification
  
Ginglymostomatidae

Order
  
Carpet shark

Family
  
Ginglymostomatidae

Phylum
  
Chordata

Rank
  
Genus

Subclass
  
Ginglymostoma

Similar
  
Nurse shark, Shark, Ginglymostomatidae, Chondrichthyes, Carpet shark

Ginglymostoma is a genus of shark in the family Ginglymostomatidae. These fish lives in Brazil, United States, Colombia, Ecuador, Cape Verde, Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Republic of the Congo, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, France, Spain, Nicaragua, Saint Lucia, Guatemala, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Guyana, Grenada, Suriname, French Guiana, Trinidad and Tobago, Dominica, Martinique, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Honduras, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto-Rico, El Salvador, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Turks and Caicos Islands, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Anguilla, Virgin Islands, Venezuela, Saint Martin, Sint Eustatius, Bonaire, Barbados, Bermuda, Aruba, Mexico and Peru.

Contents

Nurse shark ginglymostoma cirratum


Species

There are currently 2 recognized species in this genus:

  • Ginglymostoma cirratum Bonnaterre, 1788 (Nurse shark)
  • Ginglymostoma unami Del-Moral-Flores, Ramírez-Antonio, Angulo & Pérez-Ponce de León, 2015 (Pacific nurse shark)
  • References

    Ginglymostoma Wikipedia


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