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Port jackson shark

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Port Jackson Shark
The Port Jackson shark (Heterodontus portusjacksoni) is a harmless, sedentary shark from southern Australia. Port Jackson sharks mostly stay in shallow-water caves and reefs.

 


This Port Jackson shark has tiny teeth to grab and crush crabs and sea snails.

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A Port Jackson Shark at Shark Point.
A Port Jackson Shark with an egg case in its mouth
A postlarval Painted Lizardfish
A Potato Rockcod at 'Cod Hole'
A Potato Rockcod at North Horn
A Potato Rockcod with divers at 'Cod Hole' ...

Oviparous sharks include the horn shark, catshark, Port Jackson shark, and swellshark.
Viviparity - These sharks maintain a placental link to the developing young, more analogous to mammalian gestation than that of other fishes.

Sharks that give birth this way include: the Horn Shark, Catshark, Port Jackson Shark, and the Swellshark.

Horn shark (H. francisci) Â- Crested bullhead shark (H. galeatus) Â- Japanese bullhead shark (H. japonicus) Â- Mexican hornshark (H. mexicanus) Â- Oman bullhead shark (H. omanensis) Â- Port Jackson shark (H. portusjacksoni) Â- Galapagos bullhead ...

See also: Shark, Whale, Eagle, Horn shark, Tiger