Filetail Catshark Parmaturus xaniurus This small, soft-bodied shark lives in deep water along the Eastern Pacific so it has larger eyes for low light, and larger gills for lower oxygen levels. It is slender and gray-brown, with lobed fins set further back on its body, and it rarely grows lon
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Goblin Shark Mitsukurina owstoni Not a great deal is known about this rare shark. Living in the deep ocean, the goblin shark catches prey by quickly projecting its jaw forward. This feature and its large extended snout prompted its fearsome name. Order – Lamniformes Family – Mitsukurinidae
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Ornate Wobbegong Orectolobus ornatus This type of carpet shark has a flat head and stocky body with a stout tail. It has nasal barbels and dermal lobes forming a fringe along the front of its face (Compagno 2001) and is usually a golden brown with dark broad saddles (Compagno 2005). A noctur
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Close up: oviduct.
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Internal view of the body cavity with the major digestive organs removed.
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Small-spotted Catshark Scyliorhinus canicula This small, nocturnal catshark is a light sandy color with slightly darker saddles and patches, and a lot of dark spots all over it. Slim and long, with a blunt snout and large cat-like eyes, it has small lobed fins set back closer to its asymmetr
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Blacktip sharks prefer to hunt small schooling fishes
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Close up: esophagus.
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Roundel Skate Raja texana This skate has a rounded diamond-shaped pectoral disc, with a pointed snout that has translucent patches on either side of it. There are distinct dark eye spots with light outlines on its pectoral fins, but otherwise it is a dark brown on top, and white underneath.
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Daisy Stingray Dasyatis margarita This smaller, oval-shaped stingray has a pointed snout, and a round, pearl-like tubercular thorn in the very top center of the stingray’s disc. Its tail is slightly longer than its body, thick at the base and whip-like at the end, with one long, serrated ven
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