Common Names
Because the sand tiger is worldwide in distribution it has many common names. The grey nurse shark, the name used in Australia and the United Kingdom, is the second-most-used name for the shark. Other names include spotted ragged tooth (South Africa) and blue-nurse sand tiger (India).
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