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47 Cards in this Set
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Jaw suspension primarily _____.
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hyostylic
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bullhead sharks order
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Order Heterodontiformes
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The one heterodontiforme genus
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Heterodontus
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carpet sharks
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Orectolobiformes
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nurse shark family
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Ginglymostomadidae
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whale shark family
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Rhinodontidae
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wobbegong family
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Orectolobidae
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zebra/leopard shark family
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Stegastomatidae
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Mackerel shark order
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Lamniformes
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sand tiger shark order
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Odontaspidae
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Goblin shark family
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Mitsukurinidae
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Crocodile shark family
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Pseudocarchariidae
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Smallest living lamniform?
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Pseudocarchariidae
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Pseudocarchaiidae has large liver rich in _____.
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Squaline
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Pseudocarchariidae makes daily migrations with _____.
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deep scattering layer
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Megamouth shark family
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Megachasmidae
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Megamouth genus
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Megachasma
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Thresher shark family
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Alopiidae
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Alopiidae genus
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Alopias
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Alopiidae distribution
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Mainly oceanic, occasionally in neretic
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basking shark family
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Cetorhinidae
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Cetorhinidae genus
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Cetorhinus
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mackerel shark family
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Lamnidae
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Lamnid homeostasis?
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"warm blooded" heat exchanging muscles. Counter-current heat exchange.
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great white genus
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carcharodon
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shortfin and longfin mako genus
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Isurus
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salmon and porbeagle shark genus
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Lamna
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greate white sci. name
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Carcharodon carcharias
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Which shark has greatest distribution?
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C. carcharias
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Megalodon sci. name
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Carcharodon megalodon
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shortfin mako sci name
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Isurus oxyrinchus
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atlantic porbeagle shark sci name
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Lamna nasus
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pacific salmon shark
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Lamna ditropis
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Ground shark order
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Carcharhiniformes
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false cat shark family
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Pseudotriakidae
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barbeled hound shark family
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Leptochariidae
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hound shark family
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Triakidae
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weasel shark family
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Hemigaleidae
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requiem shark family
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Carcharhinidae
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bull shark sci name
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Carcharhinus leucus
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oceanic whitetip sci name
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Carcharhinus longimanus
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carcharhinid common off of La; near top of list of shark attacks
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C. limbatus; blacktip shark
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tiger shark sci name
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Galeocerdo cuvieri (monotypic)
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blue shark sci name
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Prionace glauca (monotypic)
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lemon shark genus
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Negaprion
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atlantic sharp-nosed shark sci name
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Rhizoprionodon terranovae
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hammerhead family
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Sphyrinidae
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