The Cookie-cutter Shark is named after the cookie-shaped wounds that it leaves on the bodies of its prey. This image shows wounds on the side of a Yellowfin Tuna. The fish was caught on longline at a depth between 25 m and 30 m, during a 121 day swordfish survey run by IEO (Instituto Espanol de Oceanografia, the Spanish Oceanographic institute) from December 2005 until April 2006. The fish was caught in a region of the Indian Ocean near the Maldive Islands. Photo © M. Eusebio.
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