All shark jaws are obtained from the legal fishing industry in the Philippines and off the coast of India in the Indian Ocean.   These sharks are caught for their hides & meat.  The jaws & teeth are sold as a collectible to recycle 100% of the shark.

(Galeocerdo cuvier)

#S900-A  

23-3/4" x 18-1/2" tall

#S900-B  

24-1/2" x 15-3/4" tall

#S900-C   

24-5/8" x 16-1/2" tall

#S900-E  

22-3/4" wide x 15-3/4" tall; 1-1/16" teeth  

$665

#S900-G   

27" x 14-3/8" tall

#S900-K 

20-3/4" wide x 12" tall; 1-1/16" teeth  

$525

#S900-M   

17" x 10"  $275

#S900-T  

 5" wide x 3" tall (1/8" teeth)  $65

SHARK JAWS

(Isurus Oxyrinchus)

(how to tell the difference between shortfin & longfin mako jaws?  Easiest ID is that there is a GAP between the 3rd & 4th upper teeth counting from the center)

  If this doesn't look like the jaws in the Aliens movie with Sigourney Weaver...Geez, I scared MYSELF when I saw the photo I just took.  ALL the rows of teeth are active like fish hooks to hold ANYTHING.  What a great jaw for anyone that's into sharks!  

UPPER

LOWER

#S-901  

Average size 8-1/4" wide x 6-7/8" tall; 3/4" teeth

(16 available)

#S-901-A  

Average size 10" wide x 7-3/4" tall; 7/8" teeth

(13 available)

#S901-F

#S901-J

11-3/4" to 12" wide x 7 to 8-1/2" tall

(8 available)

RARE HUGE SIZE 

SHORTFIN MAKO JAW

#S901-K

RARE HUGE SIZE, EXCEPTIONALLY RARE.  THESE LARGE MAKO JAWS ARE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO GET, BECAUSE MOST PEOPLE REMOVE THE TEETH WHICH ARE MORE VALUABLE THAN THE JAW.   Principal teeth are 2-1/8" long.  Jaw measures an incredible 29" wide

#S901-L

23-3/4" wide, principal teeth are 2" long

#S901-M

24-1/8" wide; principal teeth are 1-7/8" long

#S901-N

23-1/4" wide; principal teeth are 1-3/4" long

$690

#S901-O

23-5/8" wide   $750

SHARK JAW

(Isurus paucus)

#S-901-S

11-7/8" wide

#S-901-T

11" wide

#S901-U

(Carcharhinus brevipinna)

The spinner shark is a slender shark with a long pointed snout with a gray-bronze coloration and white belly. Nearly worldwide range. A fast swimming, very active, schooling shark that often leaps spinning out of the water (hence its name) to catch prey. It swims rapidly upward through schools of fishes with an open mouth, spinning along its long axis and snapping in all directions, then it penetrates the surface after its feeding run. This species is not dangerous to human beings, although it could be troublesome to divers when spearfishing. Feeds primarily on fishes (sardines, herrings, anchovies, lizardfishes, tunas, bonitos...) but small sharks and rays, too.

Upper and lower jaw shown

#S902-J

Average 4" wide

(27 available)

#S902-K

Average 5" wide

(37 available)

Grey Smooth-hound Shark (Mustelus californicus) shark jaw is interesting and smooth, great collector item, not common!  3-3/4" x 2-1/2".  A man once scared one to death by jumping in its tank, here's the article:

http://ourfishinghole.homestead.com/SharkDies.html

It is a bottom dwelling shark, harmless to humans.

#S-905 Grey Smooth-hound Shark  

Shark Jaw

Negaprion brevirostris

upper & lower

Shark Jaw

(Carcharhinus brachyurus)

Example of upper teeth

#S907-B

Carcharhinidae, Prionace Glauca 

(Requiem sharks)

 #S-908-A    

14-1/2" wide x 8-1/2" tall, a big jaw for a blue shark

$85.00 sold

Family: Scyliorhinus, from off the coast of the Philippines

Our SMALLEST jaw!

Close up of jaw shown top & bottom.

#S-909   Average size 2" wide x 1-3/8" tall 

(22 available)   $5.00 each

Shark Jaw 

Carcharhinus obscurus

Upper & lower

#S-910-A

23" wide

$450

#S-910-C

20" wide x 12" tall

#S-910-D

20" wide x 13" tall

(Heptranchus perlo)

Upper & lower teeth

Found in all oceans except the north Atlantic Ocean & Mediterranean Sea.  Found in waters up to 1870' deep but also in deep channels & bays, and prefers rocky bottom habitats. The Sharpnose is different from the other 7-gill sharks due to the lack of black spots along its body.  They grow up to 10' long and 236 pounds, life expectancy: 50 years.  It sometimes hunts in packs, an opportunistic predator that will eat almost anything (shark, dolphin, bony fishes, humans). Its predators include the great white shark.

#S-912

#S912-D

5-1/4 x 2-5/8"

Shark Jaw

(Orectolobus japonicus)

Upper & lower

#S-913

#S913-B

7-1/8 x 4"

#S913-C

7-1/8 x 3-3/8"

#S913-D

6-3/8 x 3-1/4"

(Carcharhinus sorrah)

Shark has a distinctive large black tip on pectorals, second dorsal fin and ventral caudal lobe.  It prefers coral reefs; they are often found in the Indian Ocean; it feeds on fishes and octopi;  a relatively small requiem shark, averages 5 feet long.  It is harmless to humans.  Shown upper and lower jaw teeth

#S-914A  

Average 4 x 3" 

#S914-B

Average 8-3/4 x 5-1/2"

(5 available)

#S-914-D

Average 8-3/4 x 4-1/2"  (40 available)

#S914-E

5-3/8 x 3-1/8"

(9 available)

#S-914-F

(Carcharhinus limbatus)

Upper and lower jaws  & inside lower jaw close up

Photo of Black tip shark at the Seattle Aquarium, compliments of Scott & Liz:

#S915-A

12" wide; 

(6 available)

#S915-C

18" wide

Scott is a scuba diver and shark feeder for a large aquarium, working under a private grant studying shark immune systems.   He was feeding a 5 foot female Blacktip shark, wearing a chain mail gauntlet, pulling the fish back and forth the way you and I would play with a dog and bone to make her work for her supper.  You can see the bruises on his right arm from her playful bite.  

 

Friend Liz is a trauma nurse, though she reports that Scott generally tends to his own injuries most of the time.  She is also involved in his study.

Here is a May 2006 photo of them both, wearing their shark tooth necklaces they got from us:

SANDBAR SHARK JAW

(Carcharhinus plumbeus)

Shark jaw shown upper and lower close up

#S916

6-1/2 to 8" wide average x 5-1/4" tall

(8 available)

(Triaenodon obesus)

Shown upper and lower close up

One of Heidi's favorites!

#S-917  

#S917-A

9-1/2 to 11" wide average x 6" tall

Shark Jaw

(Squatina nebulosa)

Upper & lower

#S918-B

9" wide x 6-1/2" tall

#S918-C

9-3/8" wide x 6-1/8" tall

Shark Jaw

(Rhina ancylostoma)

Close up of Upper & Lower jaw

#S-919

10-1/4" wide x 4-1/8" tall  

#S919-A

9" wide x 9-1/2" tall

#S919-B

9" wide x 9-1/2" tall 

#S919-C

9" wide x 9-1/2" tall

#S919-D

8" wide x 8-1/4" tall

#S919-F  RARE LARGE SIZE, 13" wide

#S919-N

Spine is 12" long, claspers are 9-1/2" following curvature

Shark Jaw

(Heterodontus zebra)

Close up of teeth above. 

Unusual because the front teeth are sharp to catch shrimp, the back teeth are grinders to chew; rows of teeth so perfect and tiny, so MANY rows

#S-920-A

#S920-B

#S920-C  

#S920-D

#S920-E

#S920-F  

#S920-G

Carcharhinus amboinensis

Upper teeth

#S-921

(sphyrna zygaena)

#S924-A

Average 

6-7/8 to 7-1/2" wide x 5" tall

(11 available)

$45 ea.

#S924-B

15" wide

(Carcharhinus falciformis)

#S925-C

12-3/4 x 6-1/2" 

$45

#S-925-J  Average 6 x 4"

(18 available)  

(RARE!)

Odontaspis ferox, of the family Odontaspididae, found on the continental shelf in all tropical and subtropical oceans, at depths between 10 and 500 m. Its length is up to 3.6 m.

The smalltooth sand tiger has a short, pointed snout, small eyes, protruding spike-like teeth.  It feeds on small bony fishes, squid and crustaceans.  Coloration is gray above, paler gray below, sometimes with red spots on the sides.

Upper

Lower

#S926-A

18" wide x 16'1/2" tall (remains of shark skin still attached are a real bonus! ** Not only a rare species but an unusually LARGE size

$900

#S926-B

17" wide x 10-1/2" tall

#S926-C

16-1/2" wide x 9" tall

(RARE!)

UPPER

LOWER

Highly unusual tooth formation.

The bluntnose sixgill shark, Hexanchus griseus, often simply called the cow shark, is the largest hexanchoid shark, growing to more than 5.4 m. (18 feet) long.

Many of its relatives are extinct.  The living species that are closest genetically include the dogfish, the Greenland shark, as well as other six- and sevengilled sharks. There are more closely related relatives in the fossil record than living species. Some of the shark's relatives date back to 200 million years ago.  

#S927-A

EXTREMELY LARGE FOR THIS SPECIES:  22-1/2" tall x 12" wide

#S927-B

17-1/2" wide x 12" tall

#S927-C

16-1/2" wide x 9" tall

KITEFIN (or seal shark) SHARK JAWS

(Dalatias licha)

AMONG THE WEIRDEST JAWS ON THE PLANET

An ordinary looking little shark with a BIG BITE

 (RARE!) relative of the nasty Cookie Cutter shark, awesome tooth formation!  They shed a whole row of teeth at a time from the OUTSIDE, notice the two layers.

Found in the Eastern Atlantic, from tropical West Africa to the Irish Atlantic slope; recorded once from the American coast. Shark size: 40-60” long; 72” is the longest recorded so far. Color: Dark chocolate, cinnamon, or violet brown below as well as above; the upper surface sometimes with poorly defined blackish spots; the dorsal and pectoral fins with pale or whitish edges, the tail tipped with black. This is a deepwater shark that has an extremely large liver so it can achieve neutral buoyancy. Harmless to humans.

#S-933

#S-933-A

#S-933-B

#S-933-C

#S-933-D

#S-933-F

#S-933-G

#S-933-H

5-1/4" wide x 4-1/2" tall.  Note the DOUBLE ROW of teeth. DISPLAY ONLY

(Pastinachus sephen)

Wonderful and Weird!

#S934

#S934-A

#S934-B

(Alopias pelagicus)

#S935

7-8" wide average x 4-1/2" tall

(5 available)

(Alopias superciniosus)

#S936

9-10" average width x 6" tall

(6 available)

(hemipristis elongatus)

#S937

6 x 4"

(Cephalocyllium umbratile)

#S938-A

3-5/8 x 2-1/4" average size

(3 available)

(hemitriakis japanica)

#S939

3-1/4 x 2-3/8" average size

(4 available)

#S-940

#S-940-A

(Hydrolagus colliei)

Also known as the Spotted ratfi