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🇮🇩 Indonesia and 4 moreEstuarine stonefish A venomous marine ray-finned fish found in the Indo-Pacific region.Shark · Coasts and shelves · 1766

WorldCrocodile shark Smallest living mackerel shark with large eyes and oily liverShark · Open ocean · 1936

🇮🇳 IndiaPondicherry shark A rare, small grey requiem shark from Indo-Pacific coasts.Shark · Coasts and shelves · 1839

🇮🇳 India and 2 moreSpadenose shark Small coastal shark with a flat snout and advanced placenta.Shark · Coasts and shelves · 1838

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The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Estuarine stonefish: Sir Francis Day, Public domain, source
Crocodile shark: Chris_huh, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Pondicherry shark: J.A.F. Garrick, Public domain, source
Spadenose shark: Müller & Henle, Public domain, source

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