Shark (Great White)
Great white Shark: Carcharodon carcharias
Distribution and Habitat: Oceans all over the world, but prefers warm or temperate seas. A few have been found in cooler waters off Iceland, Nova Scotia and South Australia.
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Sharks can find prey by following the electrical impulses that animals emit, and some species of shark can smell a drop of blood in one million drops of seawater.
SHARK CLASSIFICATION
There are over 350 species of sharks known worldwide. Sharks are classified as follows: ...
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Shark Mating, Selection, and Systems Project
NGS/Waitt grantee Nick Whitney is using accelerometers to study fine-scale aspects of shark behavior that cannot be observed directly.
Sharks, Skates, and Rays - Elasmobranchii
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Tiger Shark
Galeocerdo cuvier
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Hard corals are corals that have 6 tentacles or multiples of 6 (e.g., 6, 12, 18, 24). Octocorals have 8 tentacles.
Basking Shark
If you spot a dark fin sitting rather still on the surface, your first thought is Ocean Sunfish. If you watch for a minute and see a second smaller fin, two you probably have a Basking Shark.
Sharks are heavy fishes, possessing neither lungs nor swim bladders (see fish).
Sharks don't have swim bladders. They stay afloat, in part, because their pectoral or side fins work like the wings of a plane, only under water! Because they don't have swim bladders, sharks must constantly swim. If they stop swimming, they sink! ...
Sharks include species from the very small pygmy shark (Euprotomicrus bispinatus), a deep sea species of only 22 centimetres in length, to the whale shark (Rhincodon typus), the largest fish, which grows to a length of approximately 12 metres (39.
Sharks, Euselachii (superorder/superordre)
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Where are they found? Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Southern Ocean ...
Sharks have several rows of teeth.
When the front teeth wear out they are replaced by new ones.
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cat-shark
the smallest representatives of the sharks includes the family of the cat-sharks, who live in the coast-area of tropical and restrained seas as ground...
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Mako sharks develop this way.
The young develop inside the mother's uterus and are born live. In some kinds of shark, the young eat each other before birth and the strongest one is the only one to be born.
Hammerhead sharks develop this way.
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Sharks! While the mention of this word instills feelings of fear and loathing in most people, it is something they also associate with tropical waters. Nothing could be further from the truth! ...
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Feared as cold, unflinching predators and even as violent maneaters, sharks are unquestionably top of the underwater food chain.
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The velvet belly lantern shark (or simply velvet belly), Etmopterus spinax, is a species of dogfish shark in the family Etmopteridae.
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Sharks (superorder Selachimorpha) are fish with a full cartilaginous skeleton and a streamlined body. They respire with the use of five to seven gill slits.
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Shark Olympians: The shortfin and longfin mako's speeds have been recorded at over 22 miles (35 kilometres) per hour. Shortfin makos can jump up to 20 feet in the air.
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The shark: the ocean predator everyone loves to hate.
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Reef sharks mainly feed on reef fish, squid, cephalopods, crab, lobster and shrimp. They have been observed herding fish against the reef face before attacking.
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Whale Shark
Among the often-fearsome sharks, the whale shark is comparatively benign.
Nurse Sharks
Contrary to what the name might lead you to believe, nurse sharks (Ginglymostoma cirratum) do not suckle their young. They do not heal ailing sea creatures, nor do they accompany doctor fish on reef rounds.
Whale Shark
The only member of the Rhincodontidae family is the whale shark.
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Zebra shark
Stegostoma fasciatum
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Basking Shark (Cetorhinus maximus)
The Basking Shark is found in temperate and northern waters in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. It is a giant at up to 14 metres (46') and is the second largest fish after the Whale Shark.
Sharks are fishes and most have the typical fusiform body shape. Like other fishes, sharks are ectothermic (cold-blooded), live in water, have fins, and breathe with gills. However, sharks differ from Osteichthyes fish.
Sharks are important predators in the marine ecosystem. Their favorite prey are seals and sea lions. As juveniles they eat fish, and rays.
Sharks do not make good parents! The mother epaulette shark usually lays 2-3 eggs per week. In about 130 days, the fully formed pups are totally independent and ready to fend for themselves.
The shark mysteriously appeared inside the fish pen and it is thought that it either bit through the netting, or leapt the 7.5-foot electrified fence while chasing a seal. (Reuters - Handout) ...
This shark is a grayish-brown color on its dorsal side with a lighter underside.
It has small teeth in the front of its mouth and broad teeth in the back.
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Whale Shark
The Whale Shark is not a whale at all--it is a fish! Actually, it is the largest known fish and the largest known shark in the world. It can grow to be 45 feet long and weighs as much as 15 tons.
Tiger sharks reproduce via aplacental viviparity; the young of tiger sharks are born live in litters of between 10 and 82 pups. Gestation takes about 9 months. At birth they are 20-30 inches (51-76 cm) long and are completely independent.
Thresher shark (Alopias vulpinus)
Round ribbontail ray (Taeniura meyeni)
Pantropical spotted dolphin (Stenella attenuata)
Broadnose sevengill shark (Notorynchus cepedianus)
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Great white sharks are the top predators of the ocean. They are usually 3 - 4 m long but can reach up to 6.5 m and weigh 680 kg. Great whites are usually slate-grey with a blotchy line separating the white underbelly.
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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.
10 Most Dangerous Sharks? The Great White Is #1. Photo:Terry Goss/Wikimedia Commons
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Sharks: Atlantic Guitarfish (Rhinobatos lentiginosus), Bamboo Shark (Chiloscyllium plagiosum), Bat Ray (Myliobatis californica), Big Skate (Raja binoculata), Black Tip Reef Shark (Carcharchinus metanoperus), ...
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banded shark (Chiloscyllium punctatum)
blue spotted stingray (Taeniura lymma)
leopard shark (Triakis semifasciatus)
yellow stingray (Urolophus sp.) ...
Shark population assessments using a portable video-acoustic system
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Basking Shark
Cetorhinus maximus
The Basking Shark is the second-largest fish in the world; only the Whale Shark is known to grow larger.
Shark (Great White Shark)
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Sharks and rays don't have bones. Their skull, spine, and fin supports are made of cartilage, the same lightweight, flexible material found in the bendable parts of a human's nose and ears.
Sharks, dolphins, large fish, and humans.
Habitat
Found on coral reefs in tropical marine waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans up to 50 meters (164 feet) in depth.
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Has specialized electrosensing receptors with thresholds as low as 0.005 uV/cm. These receptors may be used to locate prey. The dogfish can detect a flounder that is buried under the sand and emitting 4 uAmp of current.
Sharks do not prey on bottlenose dolphins as they will attack the sharks.
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Like many sharks, the cookie-cutter shark is a carnivore. It attaches itself to its prey with its strong sucking mouth, and then twists about, using its sharp lower teeth to slice out a plug of flesh, ...
The silver shark is classified as a member of the order Cypriniformes and is a member of the family Cyprinidae.
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(1) Do not eat Shark, Swordfish, King Mackerel, or Tilefish because they contain high levels of mercury.
(2) Eat up to 12 ounces (2 average meals) a week of a variety of fish and shellfish that are lower in mercury.
Discussion Blue Sharks are common and well known to commercial fishers and whalers. Ordinarily they feed on small schooling fishes; however, they are known to follow vessels for days feeding on offal.
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Predators include sharks, killer whales, polar bears, and man.
The Harbor Seal, Phoca vitulina, is found in inlets, harbors, and estuaries on the Atlantic coast as far south as Volusia County. It is light to dark gray, often mottled.
Human encroachment, shark predation, entanglement in fishing nets and longlines and marine debris, disease and commercial hunting for skins.
Legal Status/Protection
*CITES, Appendix I, **Endangered Species Act, ***Marine Mammal Protection Act.
This group includes: Agnatha - lampreys and hagfish, Chondrichthyes - sharks, skates and rays, and Osteichthyes - all other fish.
Alligator Gar (Atractosteus spatula)
American Eel (Anguilla rostrata)
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I paused, looked at the water, and observing it to be full of fish, felt confident that no shark was at hand. Cocking both locks of my gun, I quietly waded in.
The brush-tailed bettong formerly ranged from Shark Bay in Western Australia south and east, covering all of southwest Western Australia, most of South Australia except the far southeast and northeast portions of the state, ...
Food items include squid, fish, skates, rays, sharks, sea turtles, sea birds, seals, sea lions, walrus, dolphins, porpoises, and large whales such as fin whales, humpback whales, right whales, minke whales, and gray whales.
 See also: Whale, Dolphin, Squid, Basking Shark, Crocodile
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