Rhizoprionodon terraenovae (RICHARDSON, 1836)
Material: sex?, TL?, North Carolina, beach at Buxton, collected in November, 2014
Images: © Eric Sadorf, 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 to 13-13 (usually 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 and fema similar (at least to sizes of about 840 mm.). Denticles imbricate, 3-ridged and 3-toothed in young; 3- to 5- ridged and 3- to 5-toothed or irregularly margined in adults.
lower anterior tooth, 4.1 mm length
lower laterial tooth, 6.1 mm length
lower posterior tooth, 4.9 mm length
upper anterior tooth, 4.1 mm length
upper lateral tooth, 6.8 mm length
upper anterior tooth, 6.0 mm length
Material: female, 96 cm TL, Panama City, collection: Jaws International, Gordon Hubbell, Florida
Images: © Ross Robertson, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, images shows the correct position of the teeth
Material: male?, 101 cm TL, Georgetown, South Carolina
Material: female, 92,5 cm TL, American Museum of Natural History, coll. nr. 79893/SD, Alabama, Dauphin Island, Gulf of Mexico, coll. by Abele, L. & Naylor, GJP, 18.6.1985
Images: © Ross Robertson, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, images shows the correct position of the teeth; 
