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The sharks of this family are fast swimmers with streamlined bodies. They live mostly in warm coastal and open waters. Most give birth to live young. The pup is nourished through a link close to a mammal's placenta. Like all sharks, they have a skeleton of cartilage.
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Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinus galapagensis · Least concern
The Galapagos shark takes its name from its holotype, a 65 cm fetus from the Galapagos Islands. Often the most abundant shark around oceanic islands, it commonly reaches 3 m; the heaviest on record, a 3 m female, weighed 195 kg.
Photo: Andrew J. Green / Reef Life Survey (CC BY 4.0)
Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinus altimus · Near threatened
Prominent triangular flaps of skin in front of its nostrils, on a long, broad, blunt snout, give the bignose shark its name. A requiem shark of tropical and subtropical seas worldwide, it grows to at least 2.7 to 2.8 m, and the heaviest on record weighed 168 kg.
Photo: NOAA (Public domain)
Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinus macloti · Near threatened
Heavily calcified cartilage in its snout gave it its name. This small bronze shark, reaching 1.1 m, lives in warm shallow waters from Kenya to southern China and northern Australia.
Photo: J.A.F. Garrick (Public domain)
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