Nurse Shark
Ginglymostoma cirratum
- Class
- Chondrichthyes
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 2,577
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Vulnerable
Description
The nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) is an elasmobranch fish in the family Ginglymostomatidae. The conservation status of the nurse shark is globally assessed as vulnerable in the IUCN List of Threatened Species. They are considered to be a species of least concern in the United States and in The Bahamas, but considered to be near threatened in the western Atlantic Ocean because of their vulnerable status in South America and reported threats throughout many areas of Central America and the Caribbean.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Nurse shark”.