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are small and overlapping, each bearing three horizontal ridges leading to marginal teeth. Living finetooth sharks are a distinctive dark bluish-gray above and white below, with a faint pale stripe on the flanks and no prominent fin markings. Some individuals from
Florida have green eyes. Males
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The finetooth shark has never been implicated in an attack on humans. However, when caught, this shark thrashes and snaps at anything within range, and people have been bitten attempting to handle it. Finetooth sharks are used for human consumption fresh or dried and salted. Other than off the
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are embedded. Called a "spermatozeugma", the function of this short-lived structure is unknown. Newborn finetooth sharks measure 48–64 cm (19–25 in) long. Shallow bays and estuaries, such as Bull's Bay in South
Carolina, serve as critical nursery areas for newborns and juveniles.
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southeastern United States, this species is of little commercial importance: it is small and occurs in water too shallow for most commercial and recreational fisheries, and is generally too fast-swimming to be caught by shrimp trawlers. Small numbers are taken incidentally by floating
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connection to the mother. Females produce litters of two to six pups every other year. In the northwestern
Atlantic, mating occurs from early May to early June and the young are born at around the same time the following year after a 12-month
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later than those in the Gulf of Mexico population; males in the two populations grow at similar rates, but northwestern
Atlantic females grow more slowly than Gulf of Mexico females. In the northwestern Atlantic, males mature at a
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means "equal teeth" in Greek, and refers to the similar number of teeth in the upper and lower jaws. This species may also be referred to as the eventooth shark, smoothtooth shark, or night shark (usually used for
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overall and off the U.S. and Mexico. Concern existsfor this species in South
America, where its numbers seem naturally low and it is potentially under heavy pressure by widespread, intensive coastal fisheries.
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Management Plan for Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico sharks; it is classified as a "small coastal shark" for the purposes of commercial quotas and recreational bag limits. As a result, the
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September to mid-October, until the water temperature drops and they move south to
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Jensen, K.; Bullard, S.A. (2010). "Characterization of a diversity of tetraphyllidean and rhinebothriidean cestode larval types, with comments on host associations and life cycles".
592:, and very occasionally straying as far north as New York. In Central and South American waters, it is rare, but may occur more widely than presently known, having been reported off
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Caira, J.N.; Jensen, K. (2009). "Erection of a new onchobothriid genus (Cestoda: Tetraphyllidea) and the description of five new species from whaler sharks (Carcharhinidae)".
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Female finetooth sharks grow much more slowly and to a larger ultimate size than males. Individuals in the northwestern
Atlantic population have a larger body size and reach
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Western North Atlantic." NOAA Technical Report NMFS 153. pp. 21.
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seasonally following warm water. A relatively small, slender-bodied shark, the finetooth shark can be identified by its needle-like teeth, dark blue-gray
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280:Carcharhinidae, found in the western
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228:Range of the finetooth shark
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1885:Australian blacktip shark (
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359:Achille Valenciennes
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928:Carcharhinus isodon
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705:Brevoortia tyrannus
671:Biology and ecology
604:, and off southern
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199:Carcharhinus isodon
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1967:Speartooth shark (
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