Shark
Great Hammerhead
The Great Hammerhead has a dorsal side that is a dark brown to a light grey or an olive fading to white on the belly. The name “hammerhead” comes from the cephalofoil which has a shallow notch in the center of adults that is nearly straight. The “hammer” is 23% to 27% of the sharks body length and its teeth are triangular and strongly serrated. They can range from 880 to over 1,000 pounds and can get as long as 11.5 feet. The females of the species is much larger than the males. They can be found in the coastal warm temperate and tropical waters of the open ocean and shallow coastal waters, and during the summer they make small migrations towards more northerly areas. Their diet consists of crustaceans, bony fish, smaller sharks, and rays.
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Sandbar Shark
The Sandbar Shark has a bluish to a brownish grey to bronze color with a pale to white underside. Their dorsal fin is triangular in shape and is very high and can weigh as much as 18% of the whole body. They average in length from 6 feet to 7.5 feet and can weigh between 100 to 200 pounds. They can be found in temperate and tropical waters in the Western and Eastern Atlantic Oceans, including the Mediterranean. They are a bottom dwelling, coastal water species eating mollusks, crustaceans, small fish, octopus, crabs, eels, rays, and squid.
Mako Shark
The Mako Shark has a metallic blue top and a white underside, the underside of the mouth is white as the longfin Mako has a dark pigmented mouth region. They can reach lengths of about 12.5 feet and can weigh up to 1400 pounds, although they averages are about 6 to 10 feet and 135 to 300 pounds and can reach speeds of about 20mph. Females tend to grow larger and weigh more than the males. The Mako shark can be found in tropical and temperate waters throughout the world’s oceans and can enhibit cooler, deeper waters by elevating their body temperature. Their diet consists of swordfish, tuna, other sharks, and squid.
Blacktip Shark
The Blacktip Shark is a large shark with a streamlined body and small eyes. They are grey in color with a long pointed snout. They have black tips or edges on the pectoral, dorsal, pelvic, and caudal fins. Their size ranges from 4.9 feet to 9 feet and their weight varies from 66 to 220 pounds. Their jaw contains 15 tooth rows on either side and their diet consists of sardines, herring, anchovies, groupers, snook, talapia, and other fish. They are widespread in all tropical and subtropical continental waters.
Great White Shark
The Great White Shark have a white underside and a grey dorsal area, sometimes in a brown or blue shade. They have a robust and conical snout, rows of serrated teeth behind the main ones ready to replace any that break off, and the upper and lower lobes on the tail fin are approximately the same size. Their size can range from 13 to 22 feet and can weigh between 4,000 and 6,000 pounds. They can be found on the coastal surface waters in all major oceans. Their diet consists of dolphins, seals, sea lions, whale carcasses, rays, tuna, and smaller sharks.
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