Nervous shark

Nervous shark
Nervous shark
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Carcharhiniformes
Family: Carcharhinidae
Genus: Carcharhinus
Species: C. cautus
Binomial name
Carcharhinus cautus
(Whitley, 1945)
Range of the Nervous Shark

The nervous shark, Carcharhinus cautus, is a requiem shark of the family Carcharhinidae, found in the western Pacific Ocean between latitudes 5° S and 30° S. Its length is up to about 1.5 m.

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