LAMNIFORMES

Madagascar 1993Liberia 2000Tanzania 1993
Goblin Shark
Mitsukurina owstoni
(Mitsukurinidae)
Great White Shark
Carcharodon carcharias
(Lamnidae)
Shortfin Mako
Isurus oxyrinchus
(Lamnidae)


Goblin Shark
Mitsukurina owstoni
(Mitsukurinidae)
(LAMNIFORMES)
Great White Shark
Carcharodon carcharias
(Lamnidae)
(LAMNIFORMES)
Megalodon
Carcharocles megalodon
(Lamnidae)
(LAMNIFORMES)
Sand Tiger Shark
Carcharias taurus
(Odontaspididae)
(LAMNIFORMES)
Megamouth Shark
Megachasma pelagios
(Megachasmidae)
(LAMNIFORMES)


The dorsal fin of Lamnidae is 2, and there is not the splinter, and the Lamnidae has the anal fin. A mouth extends to the considerable back of eyes greatly. This friend becomes large and lives on the outer layer of the open sea mainly. The pectoral is slim, and the tail fin is triangular, and the tooth is big, and it is a characteristic to have slightly few numbers. The Lamnidae preys on salmons or grenadiers that are important as a fishery resource, but it is the fishery resource how the meat and a fin are used. When a body stops heavily, these sharks set. On this account it floats a body by it open a big pectoral, and swimming fast.

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