Image: Cookiecutter bite on Shortbill Spearfish
A wound on the side of a Shortbill Spearfish probably caused by the bite of a Smalltooth Cookiecutter Shark. The fish was photographed at the Sydney Fish Market.
- Photographer:
- Kevin Rowling
- Rights:
- © Kevin Rowling
- Common name:
- Shortbill Spearfish
- Scientific name:
- Tetrapturus angustirostris
- Family:
- Istiophoridae
- Order:
- Perciformes
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Tags fishes, ichthyology, Tetrapturus angustirostris, Shortbill Spearfish, bite, Cookiecutter Shark, Istiophoridae, Dalatiidae,
