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Cat Shark

Educational resources on Cat Shark

Cat Shark or Heterodontus zebra is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Least Concern . IUCN Profile of the Cat Shark

Academic web links for the Cat Shark.


Description Nurse Shark - Ginglymostoma cirratum: In Caribbean waters, the nurse shark is still often referred as "tiburon gato" or cat-shark. Other common names used to refer to ...
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Gallery/Descript/nurseshark/nurseshark.htm

Description Leopard Shark - Triakis semifasciata: Common Names Triakis semifasciata is known as the leopard shark in the US and the UK, and is sometimes referred to as a cat shark. ...
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Gallery/Descript/LeopardShark/LeopardShark.html

Scyliorhinidae: Our single Puget Sound species, the Brown Cat Shark, grows to 70 cm long. ... Puget Sound Species. Apristurus brunneus Brown Cat Shark.
http://artedi.fish.washington.edu/FishKey/scylio.html

click here for the news highlights: ...touch a living shark. The small species is the Indo-Pacific bamboo cat shark, also known as the black-banded cat shark. The world of ...
http://www.usm.edu/pr/prnews/sep03/programs03.htm

Skarks: ...to 45 feet long! Mid Water Shark, Pygmy Ribbon Tail, and Cat Shark are the smallest sharks, 22 to 25 centimeters! You might see ...
http://k-12.pisd.edu/Schools/Mitchell/Sea_Life/sharks_anatomy.htm

HMS Student Papers 1992 - The distribution of the egg case of the ...: Title: The distribution of the egg case of the cat shark Apristurus brunneus in Monterey Bay Student Author(s): Schulman, Jessica Faculty Advisor(s): Baxter ...
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/miller/student_papers/1992_12.html

The Fish List: 1983, RACE). Apristurus kampae Taylor 1972. Longnose Cat Shark. 52 cm (20 in). ... Parmaturus xaniurus (Gilbert 1892). Filetail Cat Shark. 61 cm (2 ft). ...
http://id-www.ucsb.edu/lovelab/l_long.html

Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics & You - Olympus MIC-D ...: ...belonging to one of three families: the dogfish shark family, Squalidae; the requiem shark family, Carcharhinidae; and the cat shark family, Scyliorhinidae. ...
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/olympusmicd/galleries/brightfield/dogfishplacoidscales.html

Washington Marine Fishes: Scyliorhinidae Cat Sharks Apristurus brunneus, Brown cat shark - epi/mesodemersal. Triakididae Smoothhounds Galeorhinus galeus, Soupfin shark - epi/mesopelagic. ...
http://www.ups.edu/biology/museum/WAmarfishes.html







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