Lemon Shark Photo, Northern Bahamas
On our recent trip to the Northern Bahamas in search of sharks, we encountered lots of lemon sharks (Negaprion brevirostris) alongside the tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier). The lemon sharks were comfortable coming in for a close look and afforded literally hundreds of good photo opportunities on a single 90 minute dive. Some of the lemons were accompanied by up to a dozen live sharksuckers (Echeneis naucrates), a type of remora. Once in a while one of the sharksuckers would peel of its lemon shark host and swim around us for a while. After a while we began to ignore the lemons in an effort to keep our eyes on the considerably more impressive tiger sharks. Here are a few shots of the lemons:
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| Lemon shark with live sharksuckers. Bahamas. Image: 10754 Species: Negaprion brevirostris, Echeneis naucrates |
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| Lemon shark with live sharksuckers. Bahamas. Image: 10752 Species: Negaprion brevirostris, Echeneis naucrates |
Lemon shark with live sharksuckers. Bahamas. Image: 10753 Species: Negaprion brevirostris, Echeneis naucrates |
Lemon shark with live sharksuckers. Bahamas. Image: 10756 Species: Negaprion brevirostris, Echeneis naucrates |
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| Lemon shark with live sharksuckers. Bahamas. Image: 10757 Species: Negaprion brevirostris, Echeneis naucrates |
Lemon shark. Bahamas. Image: 10758 Species: Negaprion brevirostris |
Lemon shark and photographer Jim Abernethy. Bahamas. Image: 10760 Species: Negaprion brevirostris |
Keywords: lemon shark photo, Negaprion brevirostris, Northern Bahamas, lemon sharks, lemon shark pictures, underwater photos.
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Updated: November 21, 2009
