Image: Greynurse Shark tooth
A Greynurse Shark tooth found on the shore by Henry Miller at Botany Bay, New South Wales. Greynurse Shark teeth have a long fang-like cusp, either side of which is a single lateral cusplet. Sandtiger Shark teeth look similar but have two lateral cusplets.
- Photographer:
- Mark McGrouther
- Rights:
- © Australian Museum
- Common name:
- Greynurse Shark
- Scientific name:
- Carcharias taurus
- Family:
- Odontaspididae
- Order:
- Lamniformes
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Tags fishes, ichthyology, tooth, Greynurse Shark, Carcharias taurus, Odontaspididae,
