| River shark Temporal range:
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| Speartooth shark (Glyphis glyphis) at the Melbourne Aquarium | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Carcharhiniformes |
| Family: | Carcharhinidae |
| Genus: | Glyphis Agassiz, 1843 |
| Type species | |
| Carcharias (Prionodon) glyphis Müller & Henle, 1839
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Glyphis is a genus in the family Carcharhinidae, commonly known as the river sharks. They live in rivers or coastal regions in and around south-east Asia, Africa and parts of Australia.
- ^ "Glyphis Agassiz 1843 (river shark)". Fossilworks.