Indonesian speckled carpetshark, Hemiscyllium freycineti 1, critically endangered great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias 2, smooth hammerhead, Sphyrna zygaena 3, and critically endangered largetooth sawfish, Pristis pristis 4. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Eugene Giraud after an illustration by Felix-Edouard Guérin-Méneville from Guérin-Méneville’s Iconographie du règne animal de George Cuvier, Iconography of the Animal Kingdom by George Cuvier, J. B. Bailliere, Paris, 1829-1844.

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