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black sand tiger (Odontaspis noronhai)
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Ecological Illustration of black sand tiger (Odontaspis noronhai)
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Odontaspididae

black sand tiger

Odontaspis noronhai

Chocolate brown with enormous oval eyes

  • Black
  • Regional distribution
  • Marine fish
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Africa
  • South America
  • Fusiform
  • Large

black sand tiger is known from Eastern Atlantic as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.

Class
Sharks and Rays
Order
Mackerel Sharks
Family
Odontaspididae
Genus
Odontaspis
Water type
Marine
Body shape
fusiform
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