Ginglymostoma is a genus of shark in the family Ginglymostomatidae. There are two members in the genus. Members of this genus eat small fish and crustaceans, and are commonly quite lethargic unless provoked. Members of this genus have the ability to suck in water in order to remove snails from their shells in a manner that can be described as 'vacuum-like'.
Distribution
This shark lives in
Brazil, the
United States,
Colombia,
Ecuador,
Cape Verde,
Morocco,
Mauritania,
Senegal,
the Gambia,
Guinea-Bissau,
Guinea,
Sierra Leone,
Liberia,
Ivory Coast,
Ghana,
Togo,
Benin,
Nigeria,
Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Republic of the Congo,
Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Gabon,
France,
Spain,
Nicaragua,
Saint Lucia,
Guatemala, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,
Guyana,
Grenada,
Suriname,
French Guiana, Trinidad and Tobago,
Dominica,
Martinique, Dominican Republic,
Costa Rica,
Honduras,
Haiti,
Jamaica,
Puerto Rico,
El Salvador, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Turks and Caicos Islands,
Guadeloupe,
Montserrat, Antigua and Barbuda,
Belize,
Anguilla,
Virgin Islands,
Venezuela, Saint Martin,
Sint Eustatius,
Bonaire,
Barbados,
Bermuda,
Aruba,
Mexico,
Cayman Islands, and
Peru.
Species
There are currently two recognized extant species in this genus, and numerous extinct species:
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Extinction Ginglymostoma angolense (Dartevelle & Casier, 1943)
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Extinction Ginglymostoma botmaense Noubhani & Cappetta, 1997
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Extinction Ginglymostoma chenanei Noubhani & Cappetta, 1997
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Ginglymostoma cirratum Bonnaterre, 1788 (nurse shark)
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Extinction Ginglymostoma cuspidata Case, Borodin & Leggett, 2001
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Extinction Ginglymostoma dartevellei Casier, 1946
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Extinction Ginglymostoma delfortriei Daimeries, 1889
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Extinction Ginglymostoma erramii Noubhani & Cappetta, 1997
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Extinction Ginglymostoma khouribgaense Noubhani & Cappetta, 1997
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Extinction Ginglymostoma maghrebianum Casier, 1947
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Extinction Ginglymostoma malembeense Dartevelle & Casier, 1943
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Extinction Ginglymostoma maroccanum Noubhani & Cappetta, 1997
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Extinction Ginglymostoma serra Joseph Leidy, 1877
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Extinction Ginglymostoma sokotoense White, 1934
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Extinction Ginglymostoma subafricanum Arambourg, 1952
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Ginglymostoma unami Del-Moral-Flores, Ramírez-Antonio, Angulo & Pérez-Ponce de León, 2015 (Pacific nurse shark)
