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Scymnus unicolor Müller & Henle, 1839. Squalus fulgens Bennett, 1840. The cookiecutter shark (Isistius brasiliensis), also called the cigar shark, is a species of small squaliform shark in the family Dalatiidae. This shark lives in warm, oceanic waters worldwide, particularly near islands, and has been recorded as deep as 3.7 km (2.3 mi).
Isistius. T. N. Gill, 1865. Type species. Isistius brasiliensis. (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) Isistius is a genus of dogfish sharks in the family Dalatiidae. They are commonly known as cookiecutter sharks. Members of the genus are known for their unusual behaviour and dentition. [2]
The largetooth cookiecutter shark has a long, cigar-shaped body with an extremely short, blunt head and snout. The large, oval eyes are positioned to allow binocular vision, and are followed by wide, angled spiracles. The nostrilsare small, each with a low, pointed skin lobe in front. The mouth is transverse, with a deep fold enclosing its ...
At 20 inches long with a substantially large jaw for a shark of its size, the Cookiecutter shark is lethally vicious. While only one Cookiecutter has ever been seen in Guadalupe, their bites are ...
Round scars from cookiecutter shark bites can be seen on the flank of this stranded Gray's beaked whale. Mesoplodont beaked whales are small whales, 3.9 m (13 ft) (pygmy beaked whale) to 6.2 m (20 ft) (strap-toothed whale) in length, [3] even compared with closely related whales such as the bottlenose whales and giant beaked whales. The spindle ...
Whale sharks possess a broad, flattened head with a large mouth and two small eyes located at the front corners. [14] [15] Unlike many other sharks, whale shark mouths are located at the front of the head rather than on the underside of the head. [16] A 12.1 m (39.7 ft) whale shark was reported to have a mouth 1.55 m (5.1 ft) across. [17]
Mike Spalding. Mike Spalding (born 1947) is a marathon swimmer, and one of only two people to have swum all nine channels of the main Hawaiian Islands. [1] He lives on Maui. On March 16, 2009 Spalding became one of the few humans to be attacked by the deep water cookiecutter shark. He was bitten by one of the sharks while swimming between the ...
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