Cookie-Cutter Shark
Isistius plutodus Garrick & Springer, 1964
Least Concern- Maximum length
- 40 cm
Meet the Cookie-Cutter Shark
The Largetooth Cookiecutter Shark is a small, deep-sea predator known for its distinctive bite that leaves cookie-shaped wounds on larger marine animals. without killing them. They take a mouth-sized chunk of flesh (or blubber) out of sharks, rays and marine mammals.
- What they eat
- The Cookie-Cutter Shark is a parasite; it feeds of off other animals
How big do they get?
Cookie-Cutter Shark · 40 cm
Human diver · 1.8 m
Where they live
Distribution
Scattered at varied latitudes across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
In the wild
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Recorded on a Shark Trust survey dive -
Resting on a sandy seabed -
Cruising close to the sea floor -
In the shallows at dusk -
Sheltering on the reef
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Conservation status
Least Concern
Global
Least Concern
Europe
