Sand tiger

Sand Tiger Shark Range
Fast Facts
Type: Fish Diet: Carnivore Average life span in the wild: 15 years or more Size: 6.5 to 10.

Sand tiger sharks feed on bony fishes, small sharks, rays, squids, crabs, and lobsters.
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Sand tiger, grey nurse shark, ragged-tooth shark
Carcharias taurus
Their fearsome-looking teeth are an adaptation to gripping fish and other slippery prey.
Statistics
Males average 2.4m and females average 2.6m. The largest recorded was 3.2m.

The sand tiger shark swims with its mouth open, exposing a large number of long, three-pronged teeth. Although its teeth are adapted to feed on small fishes, they give the sand tiger a savage appearance that thrills aquarium visitors.

4. Sand Tiger, Odontaspis taurus - up tp 10' long, found on or near the bottom along inshore shallows. Occaisonally attacks people.

Indian Sand tiger (Eugomphodus tricuspidatus) ' more
Preservation
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LAMNIFORMES
sand tiger sharks, goblin sharks, crocodile sharks, mackerel sharks, megamouth sharks, basking sharks, thresher sharks
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The sand tiger shark (Carcharias tauruss)
6. The blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus)
7. The narrowtooth shark (Carcharhinus brachyurus)
8. The hammerhead shark (Sphyma spp.*)
9. The spinner shark (Carcharhinus brevipinna)
10.

Odontaspis ferox (Smalltooth sand tiger shark)
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Grey nurse shark (C. taurus) Â- Indian sand tiger (C. tricuspidatus)
Odontaspis
Smalltooth sand tiger (O. ferox) Â- Bigeye sand tiger (O. noronhai) ...

There is no placenta to nourish the pups. The pups are cannibalistic; they eat any unfertilized eggs and their siblings. Very few pups in a litter survive until birth. Sand Tiger sharks are oviphagous.

Horned Shark (Heterodontus francisci), Leopard Shark (Trakis semisciata), Manta Ray, Nurse Shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum), Reef Whitetip Shark (Triaenodon obesus), Round Stingray (Urolophus halleri), Sandbar Shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus), Sand Tiger ...

See also: Tiger, Shark, Tiger Shark, Sand Tiger Shark, Nurse Shark