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    The sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus), grey/gray nurse shark, spotted ragged-tooth shark, or blue-nurse sand tiger, is a species of shark that inhabits...
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    Sand sharks, also known as sand tiger sharks, gray nurse sharks or ragged tooth sharks, are mackerel sharks of the family Odontaspididae. They are found...
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    The smalltooth sand tiger or bumpytail ragged-tooth (Odontaspis ferox) is a species of mackerel shark in the family Odontaspididae, with a patchy but worldwide...
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    confused with the similarly named sand tiger shark, or Carcharias taurus. The sandbar shark is one of the largest coastal sharks in the world, and is closely...
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    Carcharias (category Shark genera)
    the critically endangered sand tiger shark. Carcharias are 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) long on average. The maximum weight of the shark is 158.8 kg (350 lb). Differentiating...
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    Lamniformes (redirect from Mackerel Shark)
    taurus Rafinesque, 1810 (sand tiger shark) [12] Genus Odontaspis Agassiz, 1838 Odontaspis ferox (Risso, 1810) (smalltooth sand tiger) [13] Odontaspis noronhai...
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  • Thumbnail for Mediterranean sand tiger shark
    The Mediterranean sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus europaeus), was a population of sand tiger shark that inhabited the Mediterranean Sea. Over a period...
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    The bigeye sand tiger (Odontaspis noronhai) is an extremely rare species of mackerel shark in the family Odontaspididae, with a possible worldwide distribution...
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    gestation period. They do not engage in sibling cannibalism unlike the sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus). The four to 18 surviving young are born live in...
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    Megalodon (redirect from Megalodon shark)
    version of the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), the basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) or the sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus). The most...
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  • Thumbnail for Salmon shark
    salmon shark (Lamna ditropis) is a species of mackerel shark found in the northern Pacific ocean. Similar to other mackerel sharks, salmon sharks have a...
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    The megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios) is a species of deepwater shark. Rarely seen by humans, it measures around 5.2 m (17 ft) long and is the smallest...
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    Thresher sharks are large mackerel sharks of the family Alopiidae found in all temperate and tropical oceans of the world; the family contains three extant...
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    The tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) is a species of ground shark, and the only extant member of the genus Galeocerdo and family Galeocerdonidae. It is...
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    their mother. No evidence of sibling cannibalism is seen, as in the sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus). The pups measure 97–120 cm (3.18–3.94 ft) long...
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    shark Smalleye pygmy shark Smalleye smooth-hound Smallfin catshark Smallfin gulper shark Small-spotted catshark Smalltail shark Smalltooth sand tiger...
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  • containing tiger shark Sand tiger shark, Carcharias taurus Mediterranean sand tiger shark Carcharias taurus europaeus Smalltooth sand tiger shark, Odontaspis...
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    birth. No evidence of sibling cannibalism has been found as in the sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus). Young pelagic threshers are born unusually large...
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  • Thumbnail for Goblin shark
    The goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) is a rare species of deep-sea shark. Sometimes called a "living fossil", it is the only extant representative of...
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    basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) is the second-largest living shark and fish, after the whale shark. It is one of three plankton-eating shark species...
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  • Thumbnail for Crocodile shark
    two crocodile shark fetuses manage to share a single uterus, when in some other oophagous mackerel sharks such as the sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus)...
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    even compared to most other similar-sized sharks (such as Carcharhinus species, lemon shark, and sand tiger shark) regularly kept by public aquariums. They...
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    bull shark, tiger shark, great white shark, mako sharks, thresher sharks, and hammerhead sharks. Sharks are caught by humans for shark meat or shark fin...
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    attributed to the Ganges shark, Glyphis gangeticus, a critically endangered river shark species, although the sand tiger shark was also blamed during the...
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  • Mitsukurinidae (redirect from Goblin sharks)
    long, protrusible jaws. When the jaws are retracted, the shark resembles a sand tiger shark, Carcharias taurus, with an unusually long nose. Its nose...
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  • Thumbnail for Broadnose sevengill shark
    shark, broad-snout, cowshark, ground shark, seven-gill cowshark, seven-gilled shark, spotted cow shark, spotted seven-gill shark, and Tasmanian tiger...
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  • Thumbnail for Great white shark
    white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), also known as the white shark, white pointer, or simply great white, is a species of large mackerel shark which...
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    Isurus (redirect from Mako shark)
    (meaning "equal tail") is a genus of mackerel sharks in the family Lamnidae, commonly known as the mako sharks. They are largely pelagic, and are fast, predatory...
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  • Thumbnail for Shark finning
    Shark finning is the act of removing fins from sharks and discarding the rest of the shark back into the ocean. This act is prohibited in many countries...
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  • Mitsukurina (category Shark genera)
    Mitsukurina is a genus of mackerel shark in the family Mitsukurinidae. It contains one extant species, the goblin shark (M. owstoni) and more extinct species...
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