The maximum recorded length of the tawny nurse shark is . Whether the embryos also cannibalize each other as in the grey nurse shark is unknown. It too is a critical habitat area for the Grey Nurse Shark. The organisers had intended to display a live nurse shark as entertainment. The tawny nurse shark grows to a maximum length of . Year-round are both the nurse shark and reef shark. Other species of reef sharks include the Galapagos shark, the tawny nurse shark and hammerheads. The tawny nurse shark is widely distributed in the Indo-Pacific region. It also occurs in the tawny nurse shark ("Nebrius ferrugineus"), and in the family Pseudotriakidae. Off Queensland, Australia, the tawny nurse shark is valued by big-game anglers. The nurse shark ("Ginglymostoma cirratum") is an elasmobranch fish within the family Ginglymostomatidae.