cookiecutter shark
cigar shark
isistius brasiliensis latin

Scars from cookiecutter sharks are also rather common on the whale.

Scars from fighting and cookiecutter sharks are present on males.

Individuals commonly have white scars and patches caused by cookiecutter sharks.

As with their relatives, cookiecutter sharks attack this whale to try and bite off chunks of flesh.

As its common name suggests, it is similar in appearance to the cookiecutter shark (I. brasiliensis) but has much larger lower teeth.

For other species of cookiecutter sharks, see Isistius.

There are at least two records of bodies recovered from the water with post-mortem cookiecutter shark bites.

They are commonly known as cookiecutter sharks.

A trio of pesky cookiecutter sharks make holes in the Octonauts' equipment.

Cookiecutter sharks often attack large shoals of fish, but have been known to circle fishing vessels in order to get an easy meal.

Why are cookiecutter sharks called that?

The largetooth cookiecutter shark has a long, cigar-shaped body with an extremely short, blunt head and snout.

Favoring offshore waters and thus seldom encountered by humans, the cookiecutter shark is not considered very dangerous because of its small size.

There is a record of a specimen with a wound from a cookiecutter shark (Isistius brasiliensis).

There is no evidence that this shark swallows its shed teeth like the pygmy and cookiecutter sharks.

Red and Dennis force Beth to strip down and feed her to cookiecutter sharks.

It also takes bites out of animals larger than itself, similar to its smaller relative, the cookiecutter shark (Isistius brasiliensis).

Other deep sea fish include the flashlight fish, cookiecutter shark, bristlemouths, anglerfish, and viperfish.

Other well-studied examples include the cookiecutter shark, the marine hatchetfish, and the Hawaiian bobtail squid.

The sharks are often noticeably scarred, possibly through encounters with lampreys or cookiecutter sharks.

This species may also be referred to as the bigtooth or longtooth cookiecutter shark, or the Gulf dogfish.

The cookiecutter shark exhibits a number of specializations to its mouth and pharynx for its parasitic lifestyle.

The harm inflicted by cookiecutter sharks on fishing nets and economically important species may have a minor negative effect on commercial fisheries.

Other than possibly damaging billfishes or other valued species, the largetooth cookiecutter shark is of no import to commercial fisheries.

Though rarely encountered because of its oceanic habitat, a handful of documented attacks on humans were apparently caused by cookiecutter sharks.

The cookiecutter sharks, or 'cigar sharks' are noted as a genus of sharks that are unusual in the manner in which they replace their teeth.

The cookiecutter shark (Isistius brasiliensis), also called the cigar shark, is a species of small dogfish shark in the family Dalatiidae.

In 1971, Everet Jones of the U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries (a predecessor of the National Marine Fisheries Service) discovered the cigar shark, as it was then generally known, was responsible.

There is a record of a specimen with a wound from a cookiecutter shark (Isistius brasiliensis).

It also takes bites out of animals larger than itself, similar to its smaller relative, the cookiecutter shark (Isistius brasiliensis).

Isistius brasiliensis (Cookiecutter shark)

With a long body, small fins, and large liver rich in squalene and other low-density lipids, the crocodile shark is convergently similar to mesopelagic dogfish sharks such as the cookiecutter shark (Isistius brasiliensis).