sand sharks
odontaspididae latin

Sand sharks are known to attack people for specific reasons.

Over the two sand sharks were their reflections upside down.

Sand sharks only develop two embryos, one in each uterus.

Only a few sand sharks turn up this far west in Long Island Sound.

Then he did a bit of leisurely swimming, round and round like the sand sharks.

Sand sharks have a large second dorsal fin.

Roulletia is an extinct genus of sand sharks (family Odontaspididae).

The waters around the island have bluefish, snapper blues, sand sharks, and horseshoe crabs.

Seagulls, sea lions and sand sharks have also been observed feeding on grunion during a grunion run.

There are yellow sponges, soft North Atlantic coral, sea anemones and a range of indigenous fishes from bluefish to sand sharks.

Aided by conservation efforts and a decline in its natural predators, like sand sharks, the lobster has returned to the Sound in great numbers in recent years.

The two sand sharks, the four-footer and the five-footer, had ceased their interminable cruising and had backed into far corners.

Along the way, Jack encounters sand sharks, a tree that grows the favorite food of the person who climbs it, and a cursed temple full of treasure.

"Whether it was a shark, we don't know, although it's not unusual for sand sharks to follow schools of bluefish and bunker close to the beaches in late summer."

Well, as 12-year-old Californians, a friend and I used to slip off with his dad's surf-casting gear after sand sharks in the Bolinas Lagoon.

Bluefish, bass, flounder, black fish, sand sharks, eels, lobsters, crabs and clams can be found in Long Island Sound.

Usually we caught minnows, but sometimes we had miraculous hauls of needlefish, small flounder, blowfish, sea horses and what we called sand sharks.

High Island was once known as Shark Island due to the many sand sharks which used to swim in the nearby waters of Pelham Bay.

They also said that when there are sharks around, they're mostly medium-sized blue sharks - about five to ten feet - and sand sharks that don't generally bother people.

Sand sharks, also known as sand tiger sharks, grey nurse sharks or ragged tooth sharks, are mackerel sharks of the family Odontaspididae.

He said the lobster's natural enemies - sand sharks, dog fish, black fish and other bottom-feeding fish - have been overfished in recent years and are fewer in number.

Eventually, after the crabs and sand sharks and other scavengers had done with me, there might be a few bones left to bleach away in the harsh and unrelenting Carolina sun.

More recent phylogenetic analyses, based on mitochondrial DNA, have suggested that the crocodile shark is closely related to either the megamouth shark or the sand sharks (Odontaspididae).

Lucas had warned them that almost every case of a captured purported man-eater he had investigated on the coasts of New Jersey or Long Island resolved to be "harmless, if ugly-looking, sand sharks."

It was awesome, and Hathcock returned to this place of tales nearly every day, where he watched and listened as the men hauled in their catches: giant lemons and tigers and makos and sand sharks.

Eostriatolamia is an extinct genus of sharks in the family Odontaspididae.

Odontaspis is a genus with two extant species in the sand shark family, Odontaspididae.

This genus had been assigned to families Mitsukurinidae, Odontaspididae and Striatolamiidae by different authors.

FishBase Family Odontaspididae - Sand tigers.

The bigeye sand tiger (Odontaspis noronhai) is an extremely rare species of mackerel shark in the family Odontaspididae, with a possible worldwide distribution.

Sand sharks, also known as sand tiger sharks, grey nurse sharks or ragged tooth sharks, are mackerel sharks of the family Odontaspididae.

The Indian sand tiger, Carcharias tricuspidatus, is a sand tiger of the shark family Odontaspididae, found in the Indian and western Pacific oceans.

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 distribution in tropical and warm temperate waters.

After being shuffled between the genera Carcharias and Odontaspis in the family Odontaspididae by various authors, in 1973 Leonard Compagno resurrected Jean Cadenat's 1963 subgenus Pseudocarcharias from synonymy for this species and placed it within its own family.