C.++amblyrhynchoides

 __**Graceful Shark**__
 * __Carcharhinus Amblyrhynchoides__**



**__ANIMAL CLASSIFICATION __** Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Chondrichthyes Order: Carcharhiniformes Family: Carcharhinidae

__**Year Assessed**__ 2000

__//nearly threatened//__-meaning they are not yet extinct or in danger, but they are slowly decreasing in their amount. **__Population Count__ ** Unknown No migration patterns, the graceful shark tends to stay around the coral reefs. Inside those coral reefs, they like the deeper drop off areas and sometimes swim out into shallow lagoons and by strong currents.  The Graceful Shark is under the chordata phylum and the carcharhinidae family. Most graceful sharks tend to be found in the Indo-Pacific. The latitude and longitude of this location is between twenty one degrees North and twenty five degrees South. The temperatures of the Indian Ocean range from twenty degrees Celsius to twenty eight and a half degrees Celsius. The salinity of this ocean is between thirty five and thirty six PSS.

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<span style="color: #bbd421; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;"> The graceful shark's average size ranges from 130 to 150 cm. The maximum you will see a graceful shark is around 170 cm. Normal coloartion varies from a grey shark, white belly and a tint of bronze on their dorsal fin. Usually, on the other fins you will find that they tend to have a black like coloration to the tips. These types of sharks have fairly large eyes and gill slits.

<span style="display: block; color: #ef8939; font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: center;">**The Graceful Shark tends to have a short, narrow tipped snout.** <span style="display: block; color: #ef8939; font-family: Georgia, serif; text-align: center;">**It also has sort of dull looking, serrated upper teeth.**

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 * The Graceful Shark feed mainly off of fish. Other resources you can find it eating are crustaceans and cephalopods.**

Graceful Sharks are hunted by humans, shark and can be other fishmeals.

<span style="display: block; font-size: 120%; color: #00ff00; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; text-align: center;">__**Reproduction**__ The Graceful Shark has birth to live young, rather than laying eggs. This is known as being "Viviparous." Mother graceful sharks can have up to 1-6 pups. <span style="display: block; color: #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> Threats Pollution, harvesting, humans, Persecution - Pest Control and line fishing
 * ...but not that it is on the IUCNredlist, it is being more watched and fisherman are carefully looking out for them to prevent from bycacthing and causing them to go endangered.**

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 * __Anatomy:__ skeleton made of enirely cartilage, covered in "tooth-like" scaled called denticles, gill slits, gill pump-pushes water past gills, gill filaments-dilutes the oxygen in the water to spread throughout the body, ram ventilation-meaning they stay in motion constantly.

__Quesitons:__ 1) What are the "scales" on a shark called?

2) What is the technical term for giving birth to live young?

3) What does ram ventilation mean?**


 * __Citations:__**

[|p://www.fishbase.net/]

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