Salmon shark
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The salmon shark is a species of mackerel shark found in the northern Pacific ocean. Similar to other mackerel sharks, salmon sharks have a thunniform body type. As an apex predator, the salmon shark
Salmon shark
Countershading is especially pronounced in juvenile salmon sharks
Adult salmon sharks feature dark mottling that extends into the white underside
Jaws and segment of vertebrae
Lamna
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Lamna is a genus of mackerel sharks in the family Lamnidae, containing two extant species: the porbeagle of the North Atlantic and Southern Hemisphere, and the salmon shark of the North Pacific.
Salmon shark
…Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Chondrichthyes Subclass: Elasmobranchii Division: Selachii Order: Lamniformes Family: Lamnidae Genus: Lamna Species: L. ditropis Binomial name Lamna ditropis C. L. Hubbs & Follett, 1947 Range of the salmon shark The salmon shark (Lamna ditropis) is a species…
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