Back قروش مصراعية الفم Arabic قروش مصراعية الفم ARZ Ginglimostomàtids Catalan Ginglymostomatidae CEB Vouskatcovití Czech Ammenhaie German Ginglymostomatidae Spanish Ginglymostomatidae Basque کوسههای پرستار Persian Viiksihait Finnish
| Ginglymostomatidae Temporal range: [1]
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| Ginglymostoma cirratum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Subdivision: | Selachimorpha |
| Order: | Orectolobiformes |
| Family: | Ginglymostomatidae T. N. Gill, 1862[2][3] |
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The Ginglymostomatidae are a cosmopolitan family of carpet sharks known as nurse sharks, containing four species in three genera.[4] Common in shallow, tropical and subtropical waters, these sharks are sluggish and docile bottom-dwellers.[5] They are the most abundant species of shark found in shallow coastal waters.[6] Nurse sharks typically attack humans only if directly threatened.
The name nurse shark is thought to be a corruption of nusse, a name which once referred to the catsharks of the family Scyliorhinidae. The nurse shark family name, Ginglymostomatidae, derives from the Greek words ginglymos (γίγγλυμος) meaning "hinge" and stoma (στόμα) meaning "mouth".
- ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). "Ginglymostomatidae" in FishBase. February 2011 version.
- ^ Gill, Theodore (1862). "Analytical Synopsis of the Order of Squali; and Revision of the Nomenclature of the Genera". Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. 7 (1): 367–408. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1862.tb00166.x.
- ^ van der Laan, Richard; Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ronald (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (1). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. ISBN 978-1-77557-574-0. PMID 25543675.
- ^ "Ginglymostomatidae - nurse sharks". New Hampshire Public Television. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
- ^ "Ginglymostomatidae Gill, 1862". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
- ^ Stephen, Karl. "Population genetics of the nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) in the western Atlantic". Marine Biology. 159 (3): 489–498.
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