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Ginglymostoma cirratum (Sand shark; Nurse shark; Dogfish; Cat shark; Carpet shark)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) is a shark in the family Ginglymostomatidae. Nurse sharks can reach a length of 3.08 m (10.1 ft).
View Wikipedia Record: Ginglymostoma cirratum

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Ginglymostoma cirratum

Attributes

Maximum Longevity [2]  25 years
Water Biome [1]  Benthic, Reef, Coastal
Adult Weight [2]  132.895 lbs (60.28 kg)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Florida Peninsula United States Nearctic Tropical and Subtropical Coastal Rivers    
Quintana Roo - Motagua Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Coastal Rivers    
Yucatan Mexico Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Coastal Rivers    

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Cephalopholis fulva (Yellowfish)1
Epinephelus adscensionis (Rockhind)1
Epinephelus guttatus (Rockhind)1
Epinephelus striatus (Striped weakfish)1

Consumers

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
4Food Habits of Reef Fishes of the West Indies, John E. Randall, Stud. Trop. Oceanogr. 5, 665–847 (1967)
5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
6Pollerspöck, J. & Straube, N. (2015), Bibliography database of living/fossil sharks, rays and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii, Holocephali) -Host-Parasites List/Parasite-Hosts List-, World Wide Web electronic publication, Version 04/2015;
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0