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| Scoliodon | |
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| Pacific spadenose shark (Scoliodon macrorhynchos) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Subdivision: | Selachimorpha |
| Order: | Carcharhiniformes |
| Family: | Carcharhinidae |
| Genus: | Scoliodon J. P. Müller & Henle, 1838 |
| Type species | |
| Scoliodon laticaudus J. P. Müller & Henle, 1838
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Scoliodon is a genus of requiem sharks in the family Carcharhinidae.[1] It was formerly thought to include only a single Indo-Pacific species, the spadenose shark (S. laticaudus), but recent taxonomic research has found an additional species, the Pacific spadenose shark (S. macrorhynchos).