Stegostoma fasciatum This mollusk crunching coastal carpetshark was misidentified for years by taxonomists. Due to the black and white stripes of the pups eventually turning to spotted adults, the two different life stages were thought to be differing species. Zebra sharks are popular attractions
Genetic data has revealed two distinct subpopulations: The Indian– Southeast Asian
Carcharhinus obscurus Dusky sharks are wide-ranging coastal and pelagic species that prefer temperate to tropical waters. They are large-bodied, typically grey with dusky margins on the fins. They are an important fisheries resource, targeted and taken as bycatch around the world. Their fins are
southwestern Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Pacific Ocean around Australia and in the Indian
Melbourne University of Florida Vertebrate Fossil Locality BR002 Location Western part of the city of Melbourne, Brevard County, Florida, at about 28.1° N, 80.6° W. Three separate localities were reported by Gidley and Loomis (1926), of which two produced almost all of the fossils in museum colle
The other two were the Vero Canal Site in Indian River County and the Seminole Field
Sphyrna mokarran The great hammerhead is the largest of the hammerheads in the family Sphyrnidae. The “hammer head�, or cephalophoil, is straight and square relative to the major axis of the body. The body is stout and classically shark-shaped with a markedly tall, curved, first dorsal fin. T
Distribution of the great hammerhead includes the Indian Ocean and the Indo-Pacific
Isurus oxyrinchus The shortfin mako is considered the fastest shark in the world, able to reach burst swimming speeds of up to 43 mph (70 km h-1) (Diez et al. 2015). This classically shaped shark is hydrodynamically efficient with a pointed snout, triangular dorsal fin and large and a crescen
Norway to South Africa, including the Mediterranean and it is found throughout the Indian
Carcharhinus brevipinna The spinner shark is a slender, gray-bronze shark named for its distinctive aerial „spinning“ behavior at the surface. When feeding, spinner sharks will often swim through schools of bait fish, spinning along their longitudinal axis, snapping at fish as they move through t
copepod that has been reported to infect the gills of spinner sharks captured in the Indian
Carcharhinus longimanus This large shark is readily recognized by its long white-tipped paddle-like pectoral fins and rounded first dorsal fin (Compagno et al. 2005). Solitary and slow moving, it prefers the upper layers of deep-water areas, where it is an opportunistic hunter (Baum et al. 2015).
the early summer months in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean and the southwestern Indian
Thunnus albacares This is a large torpedo-shaped fish, with a round body that is metallic blue-green above and silvery white below, with lots of light vertical lines. It has sturdy fins, and a series of bright yellow finlets between the dorsal and anal fins and the crescent caudal (tail) fin. Thi
associations with dolphins have not been observed in the rest of the Pacific, the Indian
Conservation-Oriented References on Sharks compiled by: George H. Burgess Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 Applegate, S.P., Soltelo-Macias, F. and Espinosa-Arrubarrena, L. 1993. An overview of Mexican shark fisheries, with suggestions for shark
The Somali Shark Fishery in the Gulf of Aden and the Western Indian Ocean, pp. 355
My Hero by Billy Collins Just as the hare is zipping across the finish line, the tortoise has stopped once again by the roadside, this time to stick out his neck and nibble a bit of sweet grass, unlike the previous time when he was distracted by a bee humming in the heart of a wildflower.
cave deposits on virtually every island in the Bahamian archipelago, including Indian
