The copper shark, bronze whaler, or narrowtooth shark is a species of requiem shark, family Carcharhinidae, and the only member of its genus found mostly at temperate latitudes. It is distributed in a number of separate populations in the northeastern and southwestern Atlantic, off southern Africa, in the northwestern and eastern Pacific, and around Australia and New Zealand, with scattered reports from equatorial regions. This species can be found from brackish rivers and estuaries, to shallow.. more
Similar species: Ground Sharks
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Uploaded Dec 27, 2017. Captured Jan 1, 2015 18:08 in Hawe Weg, Gansbaai, South Africa.