Back ريزوبريونودون ARZ Rhizoprionodon CEB Scharfnasenhaie German Rhizoprionodon Spanish Rhizoprionodon Finnish Rhizoprionodon French Rhizoprionodon Dutch Rhizoprionodon Polish تیز نک شارک PNB Rhizoprionodon Portuguese
| Rhizoprionodon Temporal range: Early Eocene to Present
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| Milk shark (R. acutus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Carcharhiniformes |
| Family: | Carcharhinidae |
| Genus: | Rhizoprionodon Whitley, 1929 |
| Type species | |
| Carcharias (Scoliodon) crenidens Klunzinger, 1879
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Rhizoprionodon is a genus of requiem sharks, and part of the family Carcharhinidae, commonly known as sharpnose sharks because of their long, pointed snouts.
- ^ Carrier, J.C.; J.A. Musick; M.R. Heithaus, eds. (2004). Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives. CRC Press. pp. 52–53. ISBN 0-8493-1514-X.