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Family Lamnidae (mackerel sharks) Genus Carcharodon A. Smith, 1838. Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758) (great white shark) Genus Isurus Rafinesque, 1810. Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque, 1810 (short-fin mako) Isurus paucus Guitart-Manday, 1966 (long-fin mako) Genus Lamna G. Cuvier, 1816.
You're looking — yes, looking — for a group of hungry sharks to spark a feeding frenzy. “Sharks jump at every opportunity,” Dixon says. The week kicks off Sunday with Dixon's hour-long ...
The frilled shark ( Chlamydoselachus anguineus ), also known as the lizard shark, is one of the two extant species of shark in the family Chlamydoselachidae (the other is the southern African frilled shark ( Chlamydoselachus africana )). The frilled shark is considered a living fossil, because of its primitive, anguilliform (eel-like) physical ...
The blacktip shark ( Carcharhinus limbatus) is a species of requiem shark, and part of the family Carcharhinidae. It is common to coastal tropical and subtropical waters around the world, including brackish habitats. Genetic analyses have revealed substantial variation within this species, with populations from the western Atlantic Ocean ...
Basking shark. The basking shark ( Cetorhinus maximus) is the second-largest living shark and fish, [4] after the whale shark. It is one of three plankton-eating shark species, along with the whale shark and megamouth shark. Typically, basking sharks reach 7.9 m (26 ft) in length.
The shark kidney excretes urea that is needed for the shark to have in its system so the shark does not become dehydrated from living in seawater. Sharks hearts have two chambers and the way the heart pumps. The shark heart's main importance is providing oxygenated blood to the entire body while filtering out the deoxygenated blood.
The bull shark ( Carcharhinus leucas ), also known as the Zambezi shark (informally zambi) in Africa and Lake Nicaragua shark in Nicaragua, is a species of requiem shark commonly found worldwide in warm, shallow waters along coasts and in rivers. It is known for its aggressive nature, and presence mainly in warm, shallow brackish and freshwater ...
Outline of sharks. A great white shark at Isla Guadalupe, Mexico. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to sharks: Sharks ( superorder Selachimorpha) are a type of fish with a full cartilaginous skeleton and a highly streamlined body. The earliest known sharks date from more than 440 million years ago, before the ...