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Spot-tail Shark
Carcharhinus sorrah
The spot-tail shark, or sorrah shark (Carcharhinus sorrah), is a species of requiem shark, in the family Carcharhinidae, found in the tropical Indo-West Pacific ocean between latitudes 31° N and 31° S, from the surface to a depth of generally about 72 metres (236 ft). This shark grows to about 1.6 metres (5 ft 3 in). It is fished commercially over much of its range and the IUCN considers it to be "near threatened".
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 96767.