Image: Shortfin Mako embryo
A Shortfin Mako embryo of approximately 50 cm total length. It has a distended stomach that is full of egg yolk from eggs it has been eating while still inside the body of the female shark. (CSIRO H.3213-01)
- Photographer:
- T. Carter
- Rights:
- © CSIRO
- Common name:
- Shortfin Mako
- Scientific name:
- Isurus oxyrinchus
- Family:
- Lamnidae
- Order:
- Lamniformes
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Tags fishes, ichthyology, Shortfin Mako, Lamnidae, Isurus oxyrinchus,
