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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 subtropical and temperate waters worldwide. It inhabits the continental shelf, from sandy shorelines (hence the name sand tiger shark) and submerged reefs to a depth of around 191 m (627 ft). [2]
Carcharias is a genus of mackerel sharks belonging to the family Odontaspididae (sand sharks). Once bearing many prehistoric species, all have gone extinct with the exception of the critically endangered sand tiger shark.
Carcharias taurus Rafinesque, 1810 (sand tiger shark) [11] Genus Odontaspis Agassiz 1838. Odontaspis ferox A. Risso, 1810 (smalltooth sand tiger) Odontaspis noronhai Maul, 1955 (bigeye sand tiger) Subfamily Odontaspinae † Herman, 1975 [12] Genus Striatolamia † Glikman, 1964; Genus Carcharoides † Ameghino, 1901; Genus Parodontaspis ...
A couple of tourists poking around in the sand found a prehistoric shark tooth the size of a human hand at Cape Lookout National Seashore, according to the National Park Service.. The tooth is all ...
Mitsukurina owstoni D. S. Jordan, 1898 (goblin shark) Family Odontaspididae (sand tiger sharks) Genus Carcharias Rafinesque, 1810. Carcharias taurus Rafinesque, 1810 (sand tiger shark) Genus Odontaspis Agassiz, 1838. Odontaspis ferox (A. Risso, 1810) (small-tooth sandtiger shark) Odontaspis noronhai (Maul, 1955) (big-eye sand tiger shark)
He named it Carcharias megalodon in an 1835 illustration of the holotype and additional teeth, congeneric with the modern sand tiger shark. [1] [2] The specific name is a portmanteau of the Ancient Greek words μεγάλος (megálos, meaning "big") and ὀδών (odṓn, meaning "tooth"), [16] [17] combined meaning "big tooth".
Galeocerdo alabamensis is an extinct relative of the modern tiger shark. Nomenclature of this shark has been debated, and recent literature identified it more closely with the Physogaleus genus of prehistoric shark, rather than Galeocerdo. The classification of Physogaleus is known as tiger-like sharks while Galeocerdo refers to
The large members of the abundant Lee Creek Mine shark fauna that hunted near the water's surface included the broadnose sevengill shark (Notorynchus cepedianus), Carcharias sand tiger sharks, Isurus and Cosmopolitodus mako sharks, Carcharodon white sharks, [18] the snaggletooth shark Hemipristis serra, tiger sharks (Galeocerdo), Carcharhinus ...