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Cookie Cutter Shark
Pictures Showing This Small Shark with a Distinctive Bite |
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The cookie cutter shark, Isistius brasiliensis, is named after the cookie-shaped wounds that it leaves on the bodies of larger animals. It is a small, slow-swimming shark, also known as the cigar shark due to its brown color and elongated shape. It is also known as the luminous shark because it emits a green glow. The cookie cutter shark grows to be about 20 inches long and has a blunt snout, large eyes with green pupils, prominent triangular teeth on the lower jaw, and small teeth on the upper jaw. It lives worldwide in deep water at depths of about 3,300 feet. The cookie-cutter shark eats by taking round bites out of its victims with its long teeth and powerful jaws, mostly attacking large fish, dolphin and whales. It's lips attach to its victim like a suction cup, and then it spins to cut out a cookie-shaped plug of flesh from the larger animal. It is harmless to humans.
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Picture of a cookie cutter shark, Isistius brasiliensis, lower jaw removes plug of victim's flesh
Picture #: 002847 |
Stock photo of cookie cutter shark wound, Isistius brasiliensis, on a long-snouted spinner dolphin, Stenella longirostris, Kona, Big Island, Hawaii, Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 002132 |
Image of a cookie cutter shark wound, Isistius brasiliensis, on a yellowfin tuna, Thunnus albacares, Kona, Big Island, Hawaii, Pacific
Picture #: 020439 |
Photo of a wound from a cookie cutter shark, Isistius brasiliensis, on pantropical spotted dolphin, Stenella attenuata, Hawaii, Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 009741 |
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Picture of a Hawaiian spinner dolphin, Stenella longirostris longirostris, with wound from cookie cutter shark, Isistius brasiliensis, North West Hawaiian Islands, Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 010719 |
Stock photo of cookie cutter shark wound, Isistius brasiliensis, on belly of bigeye tuna, caught off Kona Coast, Big Island, Hawaii, Pacific Ocean.
Picture #: 029128 |
Image of a wound from a cookie cutter shark, Isistius brasiliensis, on pantropical spotted dolphin, Stenella attenuata, Big Island, Hawaii, Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 002080 |
Photo of a wound from a cookie cutter shark, Isistius brasiliensis, on pantropical spotted dolphin, Stenella attenuata, Kona Coast, Big Island, Hawaii, Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 031717 |
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Picture of a cookie cutter shark wound, Isistius brasiliensis, on a long-snouted spinner dolphin, Stenella longirostris, Kona, Big Island, Hawaii, Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 002017 |
Stock photo of a wound from a cookie cutter shark, Isistius brasiliensis, on a leaping pantropical spotted dolphin calf, Stenella attenuata, Big Island, Hawaii, Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 002081 |
Image of a cookie cutter shark wound, Isistius brasiliensis, on a long-snouted spinner dolphin, Stenella longirostris, , Hawaii, Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 002399 |
Photo of a wound from a cookie cutter shark, Isistius brasiliensis, on a leaping long-snouted spinner dolphin, Stenella longirostris, Kona, Big Island, Hawaii, Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 004749-V |
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Picture of a cookie cutter shark wound, Isistius brasiliensis, on a long-snouted spinner dolphin, Stenella longirostris, Kona, Big Island, Hawaii, Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 004801 |
Stock photo of southern humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae, showing tubercles, barnacles, barnacle scars and wound from a cookie cutter shark, Isistius brasiliensis, at crease of mouth, Australia
Picture #: 008101 |
Image of short finned pilot whale, Globicephala macrorhynchus, spyhopping, showing bite from cookie cutter shark, Isistius brasiliensis, Kona coast, Big Island, Hawaii, Pacific
Picture #: 020455 |
Photo of a wound from a cookie cutter shark, Isistius brasiliensis, on pantropical spotted dolphin, Stenella attenuata, jumping out of boat wake, off Kona Coast, Big Island, Hawaii, Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 029196-V |
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