Lemon Shark

Facts about Lemon Shark, "Scientific name for Lemon Shark is Negaprion brevirostris". The lemon shark is a breed of shark that comes from the Carcharhinidae family. The Lemon Shark thickset and influential breed attains its name because of its yellow colored body. The Lemon Shark s are largely found in low subtropical waters and are recognized to live in deep seas and go back to exact nursery locations for breeding. The Lemon Shark habitually feed at night and they use electroreceptors to locate the fish, which is their major source of prey. The Lemon Shark breed is not considered a great threat to humans.

Appearance of Lemon Shark

The Lemon shark breed appears with the yellow colored body, which serves as an ideal cover-up while swimming over the filthy seafloor in its coastal environment. The Lemon Shark breed has a flattened head with a small, wide nose. They appear with two dorsal fins, such that the second fin is approximately as big as the first dorsal fin. The Lemon Shark have electroreceptors intense in their heads, which sense electrical pulses released by the potential prey and enable these night-time feeders to detect their prey in the dark.

Physical features of Lemon Shark

The Lemon Shark breeds of sharks may have a maximum body length of 9 feet 8 inches (three meters). Usually, the Lemon shark breed, when matured attains the maximum body weight of 198 pounds (90 kg). The male Lemon Shark breeds attain the sexual maturity when they grow to a length of 7 feet 3 inches (2.24 meters), whereas the female ones attain the sexual maturity when they grow to a length of 7 feet 8 inches (2.4 meters). The Lemon Sharks use the various benefits such as improved communication, predatory behavior, courtship and protection through the group living.

Diet of Lemon Shark

The Lemon Shark breeds, feed at night and are mostly piscivorous. They usually feed on fish, benthic organisms and crustaceans.

Reproduction of Lemon Shark

The Lemon shark breeds gather together for reproduction in particular mating grounds. The Lemon Shark breeds are viviparous, which means that the mother transfers nutrients to her pups directly through a yolk-sac placenta and the pups of the breed are born alive. The female Lemon Sharks are polyandrous and have a half-yearly reproductive cycle. Female Lemon Sharks offer birth to their young ones in low nursery waters. The younger ones of this breed are known as pups and they are inclined to stay in the nursery part for numerous years earlier than speculating into deeper waters. The maximum quantity of pups in a litter is 18.

The average lifespan of the Lemon shark breed is 25 years.
There are over 400 types of sharks, Sharks have the most powerful jaws on on earth. Lemon Sharks jaws, both the upper and lower jaws move. Lemon Sharks skin is made of denticles instead of scales like other fish. The denticles are constructed like hard, sharp teeth (tooth-like projection) and this helps to protect the Lemon Shark from being injury. The Lemon Shark is carnivores meaning: an animal that feeds on flesh (Meat).