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Dalatiidae
cookiecutter shark
Isistius brasiliensis
Suction lips carve round plugs from prey
- Transcontinental
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Central America and the Caribbean
- East Asia
- Oceania
- South America
- Elongated
- Medium
Transcontinental
Marine fish
Africa
Elongated
Mediumcookiecutter shark is known around Western Atlantic as a marine fish; It occurs in deep water, and records give a maximum length of 42 cm.
- Class
- Sharks and Rays
- Order
- Dogfish Sharks
- Family
- Dalatiidae
- Genus
- Isistius
- Maximum length
- 42 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: Bahamas and southern Brazil. Eastern Atlantic: Cape Verde, Guinea to Sierra Leone, southern Angola and South Africa, including Ascension Island. Indo-Pacific: Mauritius to New Guinea, Lord Howe Island, and New Zealand (Ref. 26346 ), north to Japan and east to the Hawaiian Islands. Eastern Pacific: Easter Island (Ref. 9068 ) and the Galapagos.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
