| Description |  | Scoliodon walbeehmi = Milk shark (Rhizoprionodon acutus) Scoliodon walbeehmi (=Rhizoprionodon acutus)
Date	1909
 Source	A catalogue of the fishes of the island of Formosa, or Taiwan, based on the collections of Dr. Hans Sauter. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum v. 4 (no. 4): 159-204, Pls. 63-74
 Author	D. S. Jordan and R. E. Richardson
 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scoliodon_walbeehmi_by_jordan_and_richardson.png
 
 The milk shark (Rhizoprionodon acutus) is a species of requiem shark, and part of the family Carcharhinidae, whose common name comes from an Indian belief that consumption of its meat promotes lactation. The largest and most widely distributed member of its genus, the milk shark typically measures 1.1 m long, and can be found in coastal tropical waters throughout the eastern Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific regions. Among the most abundant sharks within its range, the milk shark feeds primarily on small bony fishes, but also takes cephalopods and crustaceans.
 
 Order:	Carcharhiniformes
 Family:	Carcharhinidae
 Genus:	Rhizoprionodon
 Species:	Rhizoprionodon acutus (Rüppell, 1837)
 Synonyms
 
 Carcharias aaronis Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1899
Carcharias acutus Rüppell, 1837
 Carcharias crenidens Klunzinger, 1880
 Carcharias eumeces Pietschmann, 1913
 Carcharias walbeehmi Bleeker, 1856
 Scoliodon longmani Ogilby, 1912
 Scoliodon vagatus Garman, 1913
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