Image: Shortfin Mako embryo

A Shortfin Mako embryo of approximately 50 cm total length. It has a distended stomach that is full of egg yolk from eggs it has been eating while still inside the body of the female shark. (CSIRO H.3213-01)

Photographer:

T. Carter

Rights:

© CSIRO

Order:

Lamniformes

Last Updated: 30 September 2010

Tags fishes, ichthyology, Shortfin Mako, Lamnidae, Isurus oxyrinchus,