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Main identification features
- snout long, conical
- 2 large ds
- fins short, angular
- teeth: long, curved
ODONTASPIS
SMALLTOOTH SANDTIGER SHARKS
Body robust; large, round eyes that lack a nictitanting membrane; snout long, bulbous, conical; long, angular mouth; teeth long, slender; five gill slits, none over pectoral; fins relatively short, angular; two dorsal fins: first larger, with base just behind pectorals, second medium sized, between pelvics and anal; tail fin short, strongly asymmetrical, with short lower lobe.
A circumglobal, tropical to subtropical genus with two species, one circumglobal species occurring in the tropical eastern Pacific.
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