The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·49968FamilyAnimalia6,442 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Chordates
  3. ›Vertebrates
  4. ›Cartilaginous Fishes
  5. ›Sharks and Rays
  6. ›Sharks
  7. ›Galean Sharks
  8. ›Carpet Sharks
Nurse Sharks
Plate 1 of 8. (c) craigjhowe, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · via iNaturalist

Nurse Sharks

Ginglymostomatidae

The Ginglymostomatidae are a cosmopolitan family of carpet sharks, containing two monotypic genera of nurse sharks. Common in shallow, tropical and subtropical waters, these sharks are sluggish and docile bottom-dwellers. Nurse sharks typically attack humans only if directly threatened.

Continue reading on Wikipedia

3 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 4 known species

Ginglymostoma

genusGinglymostoma

Nebrius

genusNebrius

Pseudoginglymostoma

genusPseudoginglymostoma

See this branch on the Wheel of Life →
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Ginglymostomatidae in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

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 49968.