Spotted cat shark

Happy Shark Week! In honor of the One True American Holiday (all other holidays are less true, due to lower shark content), I spent about an hour reading about sharks on Wikipedia. Important findings from a solid morning's research: sharks often have weird names. For example: the birdbeak dogfish. That's a real animal! Ditto the flaccid catshark and, perhaps weirdest of all, the porbeagle, which doesn't sound like a fish at all. Click through for more.

Lembeh Strait is known for critters but we also see the coral cat shark from time to time on night dives! Read more about our recent sighting here...

Photo about Small-spotted catshark in water. Image of marine, lesser, small - 59974843

Chain Catshark [scyliorhinus retifer], known as Chain Dogfish is a species that's common from George’s Bank in Massachusetts, to Nicaragua + the species is considered harmless, is rarely encountered by humans, has been known to feed on squid, bony fish, polychaetes, crustaceans.

A few whitespotted and brownbanded bamboo sharks.

Brooke Pyke on Instagram: "Can’t help but share another one of these beautiful creatures with you. Meet Ellie one of our resident female leopard sharks on the Ningaloo. I can never contain my excitement when spotting one of these sharks. Photographed on tour with @liveningaloo #leopardshark #zebrashark #sharklover #sharks #ningalooreef"

Chain Shark - A small, spotted shark that has a characteristic fluorescent activity. Considered harmless and rarely encountered by humans. The shark occupies depths of 190 to 1,178 ft and occupies shallower depths in the northern region compared to southern areas. Sizes of the species range from 0.36 feet (immature), to 1.5 feet (adult). Females tend to be larger at maturity, being 1.7 feet long compared to their male counterparts at 1.64 feet. Spends the daytime resting at the bottom.

Small-spotted catshark by LORDPHYMATURUS on DeviantArt