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SHARK & RAY PICTURES

(Including Skates and Chimaeras)

IMAGES OF SELACHIMORPHA: SHARK PICTURES

CARCHARHINIFORME PICTURES: IMAGES OF HAMMERHEADS, REQUIEM SHARKS, SMOOTHHOUND SHARKS & CATSHARKS

CARCHARHINIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF REQUIEM SHARKS

grey reef shark

Grey Reef Shark - Carcharhinus amblyrhychos

blacktip reef shark

Blacktip Reef Shark - Carcharhinus melanopterus

Galapagos Shark

Galapagos Shark - Carcharhinus galapagensis

bull shark

Bull Shark - Carcharhinus leucas

Caribbean Reef Shark

Caribbean Reef Shark - archarhinus perezi

Dusky Shark

Dusky Shark - Carcharhinus obscurus

Silvertip Shark

Silvertip Shark - Carcharhinus albimarginatus

Blacknose Shark

Blacknose Shark - Carcharhinus acronotus

oceanic whitetip shark

Oceanic Whitetip Shark - Carcharhinus longimanus

Blacktip Shark

Blacktip Shark - Carcharhinus limbatus

Silky Shark

Silky Shark - Carcharhinus falciformis

Spinner Shark - Carcharhinus brevipinna

Sandbar Shark

Sandbar Shark - Carcharinus plumbeus

Whitetip Reef Shark

Whitetip Reef Shark - Triaenodon obesus

Blue Shark

Blue Shark - Prionace glauca

Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark -Galeocerdo cuvier

Lemon Shark

Lemon Shark - Negaprion brevirostris

Atlantic sharpnose shark

Atlantic Sharpnose Shark - Rhizoprionodon terraenovae

Pacific Sharpnose Shark - Rhizoprionodon longurio

 

SCYLIORHINIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF CATSHARKS

Redspotted Catshark - Schroederichthys chilensis

Chain catshark

Chain Catshark - Scyliorhinus retifer

California Swell Shark

California Swellshark - Cephaloscyllium ventriosum

Lesser Spotted Catshark

Lesserspotted Catshark - Scyliorhinus canicula

 

SPHYRNIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF HAMMERHEAD SHARKS

Smooth hammerhead shark

Smooth Hammerhead Shark - Sphyrna zygaena

Great Hammerhead Shark

Great Hammerhead Shark - Sphyrna mokarran

Scalloped Hammerhead Shark

Scalloped Hammerhead Shark - Sphyrna lewini

bonnethead shark

Bonnethead Shark - Sphyrna tiburo

scoophead shark

Scoophead Shark - Sphyrna media

TRIAKIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF SMOOTHHOUND SHARKS

Smooth Dogfish or Dusky Smoothhound shark

Gulf of Mexico Smoothhound Shark - Mustelus sinusmexicanus

 

dusky smoothhound a.k.a. smooth dogfish

Dusky Smoothhound Shark - Mustelus canis

Grey Smoothhound Shark - Mustelus californicus

Brown Smoothhound Shark - Mustelus henlei

Leopard Shark - Triakis semifasciata

HETERODONTIFORME PICTURES: IMAGES OF BULLHEAD SHARKS AND HORN SHARKS

HETERODONTIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF BULLHEAD SHARKS

Horn Shark

California Horn Shark - Heterodontus fransisci

 

Port Jackson Shark

Port Jackson Shark - Heterodontus portusjacksoni

Zebra Bullhead Shark

Zebra Bullhead Shark - Heterodontus zebra

   

HEXANCHIFORME PICTURES: IMAGES OF SIXGILL, SEVENGILL & FRILLED SHARKS

HEXANCHIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF SIXGILL AND SEVENGILL SHARKS

Sixgill Shark

Bluntnose Sixgill Shark - Hexanchus griseus

 

Bigeye sixgill shark

Bigeye Sixgill Shark - Hexanchus nakamurai

Broadnose Sevengill Shark

Broadnose Sevengill Shark - Notorhynchus cepedianus

   

LAMNIFORME PICTURES: MACKERAL SHARKS, SANDTIGER SHARKS, BASKING SHARKS, THRESHER SHARKS, MEGAMOUTH SHARKS & GOBLIN SHARKS

CETORHINIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF BASKING SHARKS

Basking Shark

Basking Shark - Cetorhinus maximus

       

LAMNIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF MACKERAL SHARKS

 

 

great white shark picture

Great White Shark - Carcharodon carcharias

Shortfin Mako Shark Picture

Shortfin Mako Shark - Isurus oxyrinchus

Porbeagle Shark - Lamna nasus

 

 

ODONTASPIDIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF SANDTIGER SHARKS

Sandtiger Shark Picture

Sandtiger Shark - Carcharias taurus

 

Smalltooth Sandtiger Shark - Odontaspis ferox

 

     

ORDER ORECTOLOBIFORMES: ZEBRA SHARKS, WHALE SHARKS, BAMBOO AND EPAULETTE SHARKS, BLIND SHARKS, NURSE SHARKS, WOBBEGONG SHARKS & CARPET SHARKS

BRACHAELURIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF BLIND SHARKS

Blind Shark Picture

Blind Shark - Brachaelurus waddi

       

GINGLYMOSTOMATIDAE PICTURES - NURSE SHARK PICTURES

Nurse Shark

Nurse Shark - Ginglymostoma cirratum

Tawny Nurse Shark

Tawny Nurse Shark - Nebrius ferrugineus

     

HEMISCYLLIIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF BAMBOO AND EPAULETTE SHARKS

Specled Epaulette Shark

Speckled Epaulette Shark - Hemiscyllium trispeculare

Whitespotted Bamboo Shark

Whitespotted Bamboo Shark - Chiloscyllium plagiosum

     

ORECTOLOBIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF WOBBEGONG SHARKS

Banded Wobbegong picture

Banded Wobbegong Shark - Orectolobus halei

Dwarf Ornate Wobbegong picture

Dwarf Ornate Wobbegong Shark - Orectolobus ornatus

Spotted Wobbegong Shark - Orectolobus maculatus

Wards Wobbegong Shark

Wards Wobbegong Shark - Orectolobus wardi

Tasseled Wobbegong Shark

Tassled Wobbegong Shark - Eucrossorhinus dasypogon

Cobbler Wobbegong Shark

Cobbler Wobbegong Shark - Sutorectus tentaculatus

       
RHINCODONTIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF WHALE SHARKS  

STEGOSTOMATIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF ZEBRA SHARKS

Whale Shark

Whale Shark - Rhincodon typus

   

Zebra Shark

Zebra Shark - Stegostoma fasciatum

 

ORDER SQUALIFORME PICTURES: DOGFISH SHARKS, SLEEPER SHARKS, BRAMBLE SHARKS, LANTERN SHARKS, ROUGH SHARKS, KITEFIN SHARKS, GULPER SHARKS & BIRDBEAK SHARKS

CENTROPHORIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF GULPER SHARKS

Common Gulper Shark - Centrophorus granulosus

       

SOMNIOSIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF SLEEPER SHARKS

Greenland Shark - Somniosus microcephalus 

 

     

SQUALIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF DOGFISH SHARKS

Spiny Dogfish Shark

Spiny Dogfish Shark - Squalus acanthias

 

North Pacific Spiny Dogfish

Pacific Spiny Dogfish Shark - Squalus suckleyi

Cuban Dogfish

Cuban Dogfish Shark - Squalus cubensis

   

ORDER SQUATINIFORMES: ANGEL SHARKS

SQUATINIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF ANGEL SHARKS

Eastern Australian Angel Shark - Squatina albipunctata

Pacific Angel Shark - Squatina californica

Common Angel Shark - Squatina squatina

   
 

IMAGES OF BATOIDEA: RAY PICTURES

MYLIOBATIFORME PICTURES:  IMAGES OF WHIPTAIL STINGRAYS, ROUND STINGRAYS AND STINGAREES, DEEPWATER STINGRAYS, FRESHWATER STINGRAYS, BUTTERFLY RAYS, SIXGILL STINGRAYS, EAGLE RAYS, COWNOSE RAYS & DEVIL RAYS

DASYATIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF WHIPTAIL STINGRAYS

Pelagic stingray

Pelagic Stingray - Pteroplatytrygon violacea

Bluntnose Stingray

Bluntnose Stingray - Dasyatis sayi

Diamond Stingray

Diamond Stingray - Dasyatis dipterura

Longtail Stingray

Longtail Stingray - Dasyatis longus

Southern Stingray

Southern Stingray - Dasyatis americana

Thorntail Stingray

Thorntail Stingray - Dasyatis thetidis

Shorttail Stingray

Shorttail Stingray - Dastatis brevicaudata

Roughtail Stingray

Roughtail Stingray - Dasyatis centroura

Blue Spotted Stingray

Kuhl's Stingray - Dasyatis kuhlii 

atlantic stingray picture

Atlantic Stingray - Dasyatis sabina

Common Stingray

Common Stingray - Dasyatis pastinaca

Blue Spotted Fantail Ray

Bluespotted Ribbontail Ray - Taeniura lymma

Marble Stingray

Marbled Stingray - Taeniura meyeni

Round Stingray

Round Stingray - Taeniura grabata

Cowtail Stingray or Feathertail Stingray

Cowtail Stingray - Hypolophus sephen

Jenkins Whipray Picture

Jenkins' Whipray - Himantura jenkinsii

Leopard Whipray - Himantura undulata

Chupare Stingray - Himantura schmardae

Tahitian stingray

Tahitian Stingray - Himantura fai

 

POTAMOTRYGONIDAE PICTRES - IMAGES OF SOUTH AMERICAN RIVER STINGRAYS

Motoro River Stingray - Potamotrygon motoro

Rosette River Stingray picture

Rosette River Stingray - Potamotrygon schroederi

Potamotrygon castexi

Vermiculate River Stingray - Potamotrygon castexi

   

UROTRYGONIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF PAN_AMERICAN ROUND STINGRAYS

Cortez Round Stingray

Cortez Round Stingray - Urobatis maculatus

Round Stingray

Haller's Round Stingray - Urobatis halleri

Yellow Stingray

Yellow Round Stingray - Urobatis jamaicensis

Bullseye Round Stingray - Urobatis concentricus

Rogers Roundray

Roger's Round Ray - Urotrygon rogersi

UROLOPHIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF INDO-PACIFIC STINGAREES

Sinclairs Stingaree

Sinclair's Stingaree - Urolophus sp.

Spotted Stingaree

Spotted Stingaree - Urolophus gigas

Common Stingaree

Common Stingaree - Trygonoptera testacea

Masked Stingaree

Masked Stingaree - Trygonoptera personata

Striped Stingaree

Striped Stingaree - Trygonoptera ovalis

Kapala Stingaree

Kapala Stingaree -Urolophus kapalensis

       

GYMNURIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF BUTTERFLY RAYS

 

PLATYRHINIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF THORNBACK RAYS

Spiny Butterfly Ray picture

Spiny Butterfly Ray - Gymnura altavela

   

Thornback Ray

Thornback Ray - Platyrhinoidis triseriata

 

MYLIOBATIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF EAGLE RAYS AND BAT RAYS

Common Eagle Ray

Common Eagle Ray - Myliobatis aquila

Southern Bat Ray

Southern Bat Ray - Myliobatis australis

California Bat Ray - Myliobatis californicus

Spotted Eagle Ray

Spotted Eagle Ray - aetobatus narinari

 

MOBULIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF MANTAS AND MOBULA RAYS (DEVIL RAYS).

Manta Ray

Manta Ray - Manta birostris

Atlantic Devilray

Atlantic Devilray - Mobula hypostoma

munks devil ray

Munk's Mobula Ray - Mobula munkiana

   

RHINOPTERIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF COWNOSE RAYS

Atlantic Cownose Ray

Atlantic Cownose Ray - Rhinoptera bonasus

       

 

PRISTIFORME PICTURES:  IMAGES OF SAWFISHES

PRISTIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF SAWFISHES

Smalltooth Sawfish

Smalltooth Sawfish - Pristis pectinata 

Green Sawfish - Pristis zijsron

Freshwater Sawfish - Pristis microdon

   

 

RAJIFORME PICTURES: IMAGES OF SKATES, SMOOTH SKATES, GUITARFISHES, BOWMOUTH GUITARFISHES & WEDGEFISHES

RAJIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF SKATES

Big Skate

Big Skate - Raja binoculata

Winter Skate

Winter Skate - Raja ocellata

Longnose Skate Raja rhina

Longnose Skate - Raja rhina

Thornback Skate

Thornback Skate - Raja clavata

Velez ray

Velez Skate - Raja velezi

starry skate

Starry Skate - Raja stellulata

smooth skate

Smooth Skate - Malacoraja senta

Barndoor Skate

Barndoor Skate - Dipturus laevis

Little Skate Leucoraja erinacea

Little Skate - Leucoraja erinacea

thorny skate

Thorny Skate - Ambyraja radiata

Shorttail Fanskate

Shorttail Fanskate - Sympterygia brevicaudata

 

 

 

 

 

RHINOBATIFORME PICTURES:  IMAGES OF BOWMOUTH GUITARFISHES, SHARKFIN GUITARFISHES & GUITARFISHES

RHINOBATIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF GUITARFISHES

 

 

Shovelnose Guitarfish - Rhinobatos productos

Atlantic Guitarfish - Rhinobatos lentiginosus

Eastern Shovelnose Ray

Eastern Shovelnose Ray - Aptychotrema rostrata

Banded Guitarfish Picture

Banded Guitarfish - Zapteryx exasperata

 

RHYNCHOBATIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF SHARKFIN GUITARFISHES

RHINIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF BOWMOUTH GUITARFISHES

Whitespotted Guitarfish -Rhynchobatus australiae

   

Bowmouth Guitarfish

Bowmouth Guitarfish - Rhina ancylostoma

 

 

TORPEDINIFORME PICTURES: IMAGES OF TORPEDO RAYS, COFFIN RAYS, ELECTRIC RAYS & SLEEPER RAYS

HYPNIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF COFFIN RAYS

Coffin Ray or Numb Ray

Coffin Ray - Hypnos monopterygium

       
NARCINIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF ELECTRIC RAYS

Bullseye Electric Ray

Bullseye Electric Ray - Diplobatus ommata

Cortez Electric Ray

Cortez Electric Ray - Narcine entemedor

Lesser Electric Ray - Narcine bancrofti

Apron Ray - Discopyge tschudii

 

TORPEDINIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF TORPEDO RAYS

Marbled Torpedo Ray

Marbled Electric Ray - Torpedo marmorata

       
 

IMAGES OF HOLOCEPHALI: CHIMAERA PICTURES

CHIMAERIIFORME PICTURES: IMAGES OF CHIMAERAS & ELEPHANTFISHES

CHIMAERIDAE PICTURES - IMAGES OF SHORTNOSED CHIMAERAS

Spotted Ratfish

Spotted Ratfish - Hydrolagus colliei

       

 

Shark Pictures by Behavior

Bite Pictures - images of bites inflicted by sharks and rays

Mating and courtship pictures - images of sharks and rays mating

Shark and Ray Egg Case Pictures

Shark Cages and Shark Cage Diving Pictures

Shark Eyes - close up pictures of the eyes of sharks and rays

Shark Fishing pictures - images of commercial longlining, finning, and dead Sharks

Shark Feeding Pictures - images of sharks being fed by divers

Shark Tagging Pictures - images of researchers installing satellite tags and spagetti tags

Shark Teeth Pictures - images of individual shark teeth and shark jaws

Stingray Barb Pictures

Wounded Sharks - images of sharks wounded by propeller strikes, boat collisions and fishing

Shark Pictures Index of Common Names

Angel Shark

Apron Ray

Atlantic Cownose Ray

Atlantic devilray

Atlantic Guitarfish

Atlantic Sharpnose Shark

Atlantic stingray

Banded Guitarfish

Banded wobbegong

Barndoor skate

Basking shark

Bat Ray

Big skate

Bigeye Sixgill Shark

Blacknose shark

Blacktip reef shark

Blind Shark

Blue shark

Blue spotted fantail ray

Blue spotted stingray

Bluntnose sixgill shark

Bluntnose stingray

Bonnethead Shark

Bowmouth Guitarfish

Broadnose sevengill Shark

Brown Smoothhound Shark

Bull shark

Bullseye electric ray

Bullseye Stingray

Butterfly Ray

California Angel Shark

California Bat Ray

California Swell Shark

Caribbean reef shark

Caribbean whiptail stingray

Chain Catshark

Chupare stingray

Cobbler wobbegong

Coffin ray

Common Angel Shark

Common Eagle Ray

Common Stingaree

Common Stingray

Cortez electric ray

Cortez round stingray

Cownose Ray

Cowtail stingray

Cuban dogfish

Diamond stingray

Dusky Shark

Dusky smoothhound shark

Dwarf Ornate Wobbegong

Eastern Shovelnose Ray

Freshwater Sawfish

Galapagos shark

Great hammerhead shark

Great White Shark

Green Sawfish

Greenland shark

Grey Nurse Shark

Grey Reef Shark

Grey Smoothhound Shark

Gulf of Mexico smoothhound shark

Gulper Shark

Horn shark

Jaguar Ray

Jenkins whipray

Kapala Stingaree

Lemon shark

Leopard shark

Leopard whipray

Lesser devilray

Lesser electric ray

Lesser spotted catshark

Little Skate

Longnose Skate

Longtail stingray

Mako Shark (Shortfin)

Manta ray

Marbled stingray

Marbled Torpedo Ray

Masked stingaree

Motoro Stingray

North Pacific spiny dogfish

Nurse shark

Oceanic Whitetip Shark

Ocellate River Stingray

Ornate Wobbegong

Otorongo Ray

Pacific Angel Shark

Pacific sharpnose shark

Pastinaca Stingray

Porbeagle Shark

Port Jackson shark

Ragged Tooth Shark

Redspotted Catshark

Rogers roundray

Rosette River Stingray

Roughtail stingray

Round ray

Round stingray

Sandbar Shark

Sandtiger shark

Scalloped Hammerhead Shark

Scoophead shark

Sevengill Shark (Broadnose)

Shortfin Mako Shark

Shorttail Fanskate

Shovelnose Guitarfish

Silky Shark

Silvertip Shark

Sinclair's stingaree

Sixgill Shark (Bluntnose)

Small Spotted Catshark

Smalltooth sandtiger shark

Smalltooth sawfish

Smooth dogfish

Smooth hammerhead shark

Smooth Skate

Southern bat ray

Southern stingray

Speckled epaulette

Spinner shark

Spiny Butterfly Ray

Spiny dogfish

Spotted eagle ray

Spotted ratfish

Spotted stingaree

Spotted wobbegong

Starry Skate

Striped stingaree

Swell Shark

Tahitian stingray

Tasseled wobbegong

Thornback ray

Thornback skate

Thorntail stingray

Thorny Skate

Tiger shark

Velez Skate

Vermiculate River Stingray

Wards wobbegong

Whale shark

White Spotted Bamboo Shark

Whitespotted Guitarfish

Whitetip reef shark

Yellow spotted stingray

Zebra Bullhead Shark

 

Shark Pictures Index of Scientific Names

Aetobus narinari

Amblyraja radiata

Aptychotrema rostrata

Brachaelurus waddi

Carcharhinus aconotus

Carcharhinus albimarginatus

Carcharhinus amblyrhychos

Carcharhinus brevipinna

Carcharhinus falciformis

Carcharhinus galapagensis

Carcharhinus leucas

Carcharhinus longimanus

Carcharhinus melanopterus

Carcharhinus obscurus

Carcharhinus perezi

Carcharhinus plumbeus

Carcharias taurus

Carcharodon carcharias

Centrophorus granulosus

Cephaloscyllium ventriosum

Cetorhinus maximus

Chiloscyllium plagiosum

Dasyatis americana

Dasyatis Centroura

Dasyatis dipterura

Dasyatis kuhlii

Dasyatis longus

Dasyatis pastinaca

Dasyatis sabina

Dasyatis sayi

Dasyatis thetidis

Diplobatus ommata

Dipturus laevis

Discopyge tschudii

Eucrossorhinus dasypogon

Galeocerdo cuvier

Ginglymostoma cirratum

Gymnura altavela

Hemiscyllium trispeculare

Heterodontus francisci

Heterodontus portusjacksoni

Heterodontus zebra

Hexanchus griseus

Hexanchus nakamurai

Himantura fai

Himantura jenkinsii

Himantura schmardae

Himantura undulata

Hydrolagus colliei

Hypnos monopterygium

Isurus oxyrinchus

Lamna nasus

Malacoraja senta

Manta birostris

Mobula hypostoma

Mustelus californicus

Mustelus canis

Mustelus henlei

Mustelus sinusmexicanus

Myliobatis aquila

myliobatis australis

Myliobatis californicus

Narcine braziliensis

Narcine entemedor

Negaprion brevirostris

Notorhinchus cepedianus

Odontaspis ferox

Orectolobus halei

Orectolobus maculatus

Orectolobus ornatus

Orectolobus wardi

Pastinachus sephen

Platyrhinoidis triseriata

Potamotrygon castexi

Potamotrygon motoro

Potamotrygon schroederi

Prionace glauca

Pristis microdon

Pristis pectinata

Pristis zijsron

Raja binoculata

Raja clavata

Raja erinacea

Raja Rhina

Raja stellulata

Raja velezi

Rhina ancylostoma

Rhincodon typus

Rhinobatos lentiginosus

Rhinobatos productos

Rhinoptera bonasus

Rhizoprionodon longurio

Rhizoprionodon terraenovae

Rhynchobatus australiae

Schroederichthys chilensis

Scyliorhinus canicula

Scyliorhinus retifer

Somniosus microcephalus

Sphyrna lewini

Sphyrna media

Sphyrna mokorran

Sphyrna tiburo

Sphyrna zygaena

Squalus acanthias

Sualus suckleyi

Squalus cubensis

Squatina californica

Squatina squatina

Sutorectus tentaculatus

Sympterygia brevicaudata

Taeniura grabata

Taeniura lymma

Taeniura meyeni

Torpedo marmorata

Triakis semifasciata

Triaenodon obesus

Trygonoptera ovalis

Trygonoptera personata

Trygonoptera testacea

Urobatis concentricus

Urobatis halleri

Urobatis jamaicensis

Urobatis maculatus

Urolophus gigas

Urolophus kapalae

Urolophus sp.

Urotrygon rogersi

Zapteryx exasperata

 

 

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