At a white shark about 300 teeth located in 3-5 rows in chessboard order. At tiger so, and at a whale shark of 14000 teeth. The biggest teeth at a white shark, they can reach 5 cm in length.
Each species of this fish differs from another not only in appearance, but also the number of teeth. It is necessary to tell that on number of teeth of sharks just and distinguish, some closely related types are externally very similar at each other, and thanks to anatomic features the scientists also define what look this predator treats.
Feature of arrangement of teeth
If attentively to take a closer look, then it is possible to see that the shark has several rows of sharp and long teeth, the first of which worker, and the others practically do not participate in production processing since they are strongly recurved. However if one or several teeth from a working row are lost, on their place teeth from a reserve row will move forward. The shark loses teeth constantly, the design of their tooth device does not provide too rigid fastening. If this predator is not able quickly to swallow production, she will choke with it in teeth therefore the nature provided such protective mechanism: problem production is spat out together with teeth.
The number of teeth in a mouth
Scientists found out that the big white shark has 280-300 teeth located in a jaw 3-5 equal snow-white rows in chessboard order. And young individuals update teeth more often than their aged relatives. In a mouth of tiger sharks about the same teeth, how many and in a mouth of a karkharodon. Same concerns also a design of the tooth device and frequency of replacement. The distinction consists only in a shape of teeth: the tiger predator has them skrebkoobrazny and have numerous jags on a contour. They are ideally adapted for opening of strong armors of turtles. The number of teeth in a mouth of each certain individual depends on an image of food, a way of hunting and a shape of each separate tooth. Most of all teeth in a mouth at a whale shark – about 14 thousand pieces. Undoubtedly, this species of sharks the toothiest. The truth they are not intended for hunting for seals, cats and turtles at all: these small needles 6 mm high are located in 20 rows, forming a peculiar sieve through which water filters, and zooplankton remains in a mouth. Whale and huge sharks impress with the sizes, but for people they do not constitute danger and the coast never approach. After all the biggest teeth at a big white shark – they reach 5 cm in length. In comparison with the sizes of a body teeth at a cigar shark seem very big. She lives at an ocean depth, as well as her close relatives from family of dalatiyevy.