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Title: Female gray nurse shark.
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A large female gray nurse shark (also known as sandtiger, grey nurse shark, ragged tooth shark: Eugomphodus taurus) in a canyon at Fish Rock, South West Rocks, New South Wales, Australia. Pacific Ocean.
In the final stages of pregancy, female gray nurse sharks stop feeding and algae grows on their teeth.
In the final stages of pregancy, female gray nurse sharks stop feeding and algae grows on their teeth.
- Cartilaginous Fishes: Chondrichthyes
- Elasmobranchs: Elasmobranchii
- Fishes
- Mackerel Sharks: Lamniformes
- Marine Life
- sandtiger: gray nurse: ragged tooth shark: Eugomphodus taurus
- Sand Tiger Sharks: Odontaspididae
- Sharks
- temperate