Tuesday, July 07, 2009

MYSTERY SHARK?

2 comments:

  1. Smooth dogfish or dusky smooth hound (Mustelus canis):

    http://dsc.discovery.com/sharks/smooth-dogfish-shark.html

    http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/education/sharkkey/images/smoothdogfish2.jpg

    http://luna.cas.usf.edu/~motta/dogfish2.gif

    and

    http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/gallery/Descript/SmoothDogfish/smoothdogfish6.JPG


    Not to contradict the fishermen here, but it's a hound or dog shark (Triakidae), not a cat shark(Scyliorhinidae).

    http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/sharkland/catsharks/1943/

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