Noun: Ginglymostoma cirratum
- Small bottom-dwelling shark of warm shallow waters on both coasts of North America and South America and from southeast Asia to Australia
"The Ginglymostoma cirratum rested motionless on the sandy bottom";
- nurse shark
Type of: shark
Part of: genus Ginglymostoma, Ginglymostoma
Encyclopedia: Ginglymostoma cirratum