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Grey Reef Shark
Characteristics
Scientific Name:
Carcharhinus Amblyrhynchos
Family Name:
Carcharhinidae
Size:
8.4 feet (2.6 m)
Weight:
74.3 pounds (33.7 kg).
Color:
dark gray to bronze gray, paling to a white ventral side
Diet:
reef bony fishes, but also squid, octopi, crabs and lobsters
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Grey Reef Shark Description
Medium-sized to large shark, with a broadly rounded snout. Origin of the first dorsal fin usually over or just in front of the free rear tips of the pectoral fins. No interdorsal ridge.
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