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Triaenodon - a genus of Triakidae

fish genus - any of various genus of fish

family Triakidae, Triakidae - small sharks with smooth skins and lacking spines on their dorsal fins

reef whitetip shark, Triaenodon obseus, whitetip shark - smooth dogfish of Pacific and Indian Oceans and Red Sea having white-tipped dorsal and caudal fins

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Clasper flaring: maintenance behavior, or a normally hidden feature of male whitetip reef sharks, Triaenodon obesus?

Sexual maturation in a male whale shark (Rhincodon typus) based on observations made over 20 years of captivity

En el Pacifico solo el 1.9% de las especies se distribuyen tanto en el Pacifico occidental como el oriental (e.g., Echinorhinus cookei y Triaenodon obesus).

Diversidad y afinidades biogeograficas de los tiburones, rayas y quimeras (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii, Holocephali) de Mexico

Le Feuvre show the long, paired inflated siphon sacs of Triaenodon obesus during benthic copulation, where only the head of the clasper is inserted into the female (pers.

Cephaloscyllium stevensi: a new species of swellshark (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) from Papua New Guinea

Estas especies fueron: raya aguila (Aetobatus narinari), raya sarten marmoleada (Taeniura meyeri), tiburon de aleta blanca (Triaenodon obesus), tortuga verde (Chelonia mydas), cormoran no volador (Phalacrocorax harrisi) y lobo marino de Galapagos (Zalophus californianus).

Short-term effects of tourism activities on the behavior of representative fauna on the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador/Efecto de actividades turisticas sobre el comportamiento de fauna representativa de las Islas Galapagos, Ecuador

The teeth are well adapted for clutching and holding prey and superficially resemble teeth of the reef whitetip shark, Triaenodon obesus (Ruppell).

Late Eocene sharks of the Hardie Mine local fauna of Wilkinson County, Georgia