Image: Tail region of a shark skeleton
The tail region of a shark skeleton hauled up from a depth of 150 m of Tathra, New South Wales, 2003. Most elasmobranchs have heterocercal tails, in which the vertebral column extends into the upper lobe of the tail.
- Photographer:
- D. Stephens
- Rights:
- © D. Stephens
- Common name:
- Shark skeleton
- Order:
- Lamniformes
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Tags fishes, ichthyology, shark skeleton, tail,
