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.

 

 Rhizoprionodon terraenovae

 

lower anterior tooth, 4.1 mm lengthRhizoprionodon terraenovae

 

lower laterial tooth, 6.1 mm lengthRhizoprionodon terraenovae

 

lower posterior tooth, 4.9 mm lengthRhizoprionodon terraenovae

 

upper anterior tooth, 4.1 mm lengthRhizoprionodon terraenovae

 

upper lateral tooth, 6.8 mm lengthRhizoprionodon terraenovae

 

 

upper anterior tooth, 6.0 mm lengthRhizoprionodon terraenovae

 

 

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

 Rhizoprionodon terraenovae

 

 Rhizoprionodon terraenovae

 

 Rhizoprionodon terraenovae

 

 Rhizoprionodon terraenovae

 

 Rhizoprionodon terraenovae

 

 Rhizoprionodon terraenovae

 

Material: male?, 101 cm TL, Georgetown, South Carolina

 Rhizoprionodon terraenovae

 

 Rhizoprionodon terraenovae

 

 Rhizoprionodon terraenovae

 

 Rhizoprionodon terraenovae

 

 Rhizoprionodon terraenovae

 

 Rhizoprionodon terraenovae

 

 Rhizoprionodon terraenovae

 

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; Rhizoprionodon terraenovae

 

 Rhizoprionodon terraenovae

 

 Rhizoprionodon terraenovae

 

 Rhizoprionodon terraenovae

 

 Rhizoprionodon terraenovae

 

 Rhizoprionodon terraenovae

 

 Rhizoprionodon terraenovae

 

 Rhizoprionodon terraenovae

 

 Rhizoprionodon terraenovae

 

 Rhizoprionodon terraenovae