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SpeciesSqualiformesDalatiidae
Sharks & rays

🐟Cookiecutter shark

Isistius brasiliensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)

Isistius brasiliensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824), conhecido pelos nomes comuns de tubarão-charuto tubarão-luminoso, ou tubarão-corta-carne, é uma espécie de pequenos tubarões malhados esqualiformes das águas profundas dos mares subtropicais e tropicais. Pertence à família Dalatiidae, um grupo de esqualos caracterizado por grandes migrações verticais na coluna de água. A espécie carateriza-se por uma grande voracidade, arrancando pedaços circulares de carne às suas vítimas de maiores dimensões. Este comportamento está na origem do nome comum anglófono de cookiecutter ("cortador de biscoitos"), pois a sua estrutura bucal, com semelhanças com a das lampreias, permite-lhe fixar-se sobre o hospedeiro, cortando de seguida um naco de carne, com alguns centímetros de diâmetro, com recurso a uma dentição adaptada a este tipo de ectoparasitismo.

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Also called
Isistius brasiliensis, Cookie-cutter Shark, Luminous Shark
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
not recorded
Body length
0.42 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Everything we know about the Cookiecutter shark

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Body length
0.42 mmaximum recorded
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

By sex

  • Female0.56 mFishBasev25.04
Trophic level
4.28
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 4.28 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
harmless
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classElasmobranchii
  4. ›orderSqualiformes
  5. ›familyDalatiidae
  6. ›genusIsistius
  7. ›speciesIsistius brasiliensis
Full lineage
  1. superclassGnathostomata
  2. classSharks & rays · Chondrichthyes
  3. subclassElasmobranchii
  4. genusIsistius
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. classSharks & rays · Chondrichthyes
  7. subclassElasmobranchii
  8. genusIsistius
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巴西达摩鲨 (zh), Καρχαρίας κόπτης (el), Squalelet féroce (fr), Бразильская акула (ru), Tauró cigar (ca), Zigarrenhai (de) … and 21 more languages
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