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Assessment of Indian Sharks
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- The International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN’s) Shark Specialist Group has assessed the sharks, rays and chimaeras in the Indian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
- This assessment has classified 19 species (11%) of the 170 species of sharks, rays and chimaeras from Indian EEZ as Critically Endangered (CE).
- It marks for the first time Indian swellshark Cephaloscyllium silasi as ‘CE’ due to very limited geographic range, and population decline.
- Indian swellshark is a deep-water catshark known from the coast of Kerala and Sri Lanka, and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
- The Oceanic White tip shark that was classified as endangered has now been listed critically endangered.
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