Fish
Nurse Shark
The docile reef bottom-dweller
Family Ginglymostomatidae
Ginglymostomatidae is a taxonomic family in the order Orectolobiformes, class Chondrichthyes. Global Animal Guide profiles one of its members: Nurse Shark.
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