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Luminous Shark

Educational resources on Luminous Shark

Luminous Shark or Isistius brasiliensis is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Least Concern . IUCN Profile of the Luminous Shark

Academic web links for the Luminous Shark.


Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department: Megamouth ...
Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department homepage. This page contains, educational sections about the biology, ecology and conservation of fishes and sharks. A rich
www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Gallery/Descript/megamouth/megamouth.htm

Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department: Cookiecutter ...
English language common names include cookiecutter shark, cigar shark, cookie-cutter shark, and luminous shark. Other common names include almindelig cookiecutterhaj (Danish
www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Gallery/Descript/CookiecutterShark/CookiecutterShark.html

Fish Printouts - EnchantedLearning.com
Luminous Shark A small shark that takes circular bites out of its prey. Also known as the cookiecutter or cigar shark. Mako Shark Large predators that are the fastest swimming fish!
courseweb.tac.unt.edu/overall/CECS4100/Fall2003/Section007/Umphrey/Fish%20Printouts%20...

Marine Discovery Lesson
Myagkov, N.A. ÒUnusual Brain Structure of Luminous Shark, Isistius brasiliensis (Dalatiidae).Ó Journal of Ichthyology 24 (1984): 109-112.
marinediscovery.arizona.edu/lessons/coral/Templates/index.html

NARRATIVE
The Luminous Shark — The Hawaiian Frog-Fish — The File-Fish or Leather-Jacket — The Long-Headed File-Fish — The Sun Fish — The Round Diodon, or Toad-Fish — The Five
mysite.du.edu/~ttyler/ploughboy/bennettvoyagev2.htm

History of Science: Nature: Our book shelf
The observations of the two Bennetts (" Whaling Voyage and "Gatherings in Australia") on a small luminous shark (Squalusftd,,rens: Isis/ins lu-as ilieisi, ( ).G.).
digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/HistSciTech/HistSciTech-idx?type=article&did=HIST...

Martin Luther King Jr.
Boston University School of Theology ... The cookiecutter shark, Isistius brasiliensis, also known as the cigar shark or luminous shark, is a small, rarely-seen dogfish shark.
sthweb.bu.edu/index.php?option=com_awiki&view=mediawiki&article=Cookiecutter_shark&Itemid=357







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