Australian sharpnose shark

Taxobox
name = Australian sharpnose shark


status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
trend =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Chondrichthyes
subclassis = Elasmobranchii
ordo = Carcharhiniformes
familia = Carcharhinidae
genus = "Rhizoprionodon"
species = "R. taylori"
binomial = "Rhizoprionodon taylori"
binomial_authority = (Ogilby, 1915)The Australian sharpnose shark, "Rhizoprionodon taylori", is a requiem shark of the family Carcharhinidae, found in the tropical waters of the western Pacific Ocean off Papua New Guinea and northern Australia between latitudes 8° N and 28° S, from the surface to 110 m. Its length is up to about 70 cm.

The Australian sharpnose shark is a little-known species found on the continental shelf from close inshore to a depth of at least 110 m. It feeds mainly on fishes, but also takes cephalopods and crustaceans. It is viviparous. It is too small to be of any commercial importance.

Coloration is brownish grey above, white below, and fins light-edged but not conspicuously marked.

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