Rhizoprionodon porosus (POEY, 1861)

 

Material: male, 95 cm TL, Buccoo Reef, Tobago, collection: Jaws International, Gordon Hubbell, Florida, coll. J.I. Castro

Images:  © Ross Robertson, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, images shows the correct position of the teeth

Description after Springer, 1964 [#2274]: Upper teeth 11-1-12 to 13-1-13 (usually 12-1-12); lower teeth 12-12; cusps of some upper teeth in large specimens faintly to moderately serrulate; cusps of lower teeth adumbrating this condition; dentition of mature males (one seen) and females similar. Denticles imbricate, 3-ridged and 3-toothed in young; 3- to 5- ridged and 3-toothed or irregularly margined in adults.

 

 Rhizoprionodon porosus

 

 Rhizoprionodon porosus

 

 Rhizoprionodon porosus

 

 Rhizoprionodon porosus

 

 Rhizoprionodon porosus

 

 Rhizoprionodon porosus

 

 Rhizoprionodon porosus

 

Material: female, 84,5 cm TL, American Museum of Natural History, coll. nr. 510, Trinidad, Port of Spain, coll. 22.08.1987 

Images: © Ross Robertson, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, images shows the correct position of the teeth Rhizoprionodon porosus

 

 Rhizoprionodon porosus

 

 Rhizoprionodon porosus

 

 Rhizoprionodon porosus

 

 Rhizoprionodon porosus

 

 Rhizoprionodon porosus

 

 Rhizoprionodon porosus

 

 Rhizoprionodon porosus

 

 Rhizoprionodon porosus

 

 Rhizoprionodon porosus

 

 Rhizoprionodon porosus

 

 Rhizoprionodon porosus

 

 Rhizoprionodon porosus

 

 Rhizoprionodon porosus