Elasmobranch ID game

[FishyGirl65]

Y E S! That shark is 'fake'. It was a big hoax that spread like wild fire all over when the guy released the pics and claimed he caught it in a net off of Japan.


Your turn.

No wonder it looked weird! I have a question though. Serafino mentioned that he thought it was a deformed egg tooth? There are sharks that have an egg tooth? (Not trying to get off-topic, but what does that look like? I tried googling and haven't come up with anything yet)

 

[Zoodiver]

Nope, they are not known to have egg teeth.

 

[FishyGirl65]

Nope, they are not known to have egg teeth.

Okay, thanks! I had never heard of that in sharks and thought maybe I just wasn't "in the know" or something.

 

[I<3fish]

Southern mandarin dogfish (cirrhigaleus australis)

Try this one

 

[I<3fish]

Anyone?

 

[krj-1168]

Well - it certainly ain't a dogfish.

That is a Coral Catshark (Atelomycterus marmoratus).

 

[I<3fish]

try again

 

[I<3fish]

Oh the last pic was a dogfish is what im saying not my post

 

[Crumbs]

But Ken was correct. It was a Coral Catshark and there are only three members in the genus. Atelomycterus marmoratus is the only one that has white spots.

 

[serafino]

Ok I'm confused???? Let me type this out to figure it out... Mandarin dogfish was a correct guess for my shark. Maybe he new it was absolutely correct and posted a pic of a coral cat then krj-1168 guessed that picture. So I think its krj-1168's turn to post one up.