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Q. What is scoliodon

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Scoliodon is a genus of requiem shark, and part of the family Carcharhinidae. It was formerly thought to include only a single Indo-Pacific species, the spadenose shark (S. laticaudus), but recent taxonomic research has found two species, and the formerly excluded junior synonyms need to be resurrected.[1]

it is the scitific name of shark

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