Shark exibit at the Istanbul Marine Zoo

[alexanian]

Hey everyone, I went to the Istanbul marine zoo last month and thought I'd share some of the pix I took there. Enjoy

 

[alexanian]

Hope everyone liked the pix, I know they're not the best quality, but it's the best I could do with my camera. I do have a question though. Can anyone tell me what species are the sharks on the first and the second picture?

 

[kasaki89]

second pic might be a guitarfish , first pic of zebrashark

 

[sikoko]

i love the guitarfish

 

[benzjamin13]

Very nice!

 

[Paul11]

1) Zebra Shark / Stegostoma fasciatum or varium
2) Shovelnose Guitarfish / Rhinobatos productus? I think

 

[alexanian]

The first seems to be right, but the shovelnose guitar shark doesn't look like what i remember i saw there. The Rhinobatos productus is brown and this one was blue with white spots. Here is another close up pic. Too bad I don't have more pix of it, but it wasn't showing up that much.