Cookiecutter shark
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| phylum | Chordata | The cookiecutter shark is a species of small dogfish shark. It occurs in warm, oceanic waters worldwide, particularly near islands, and has been recorded from as deep as 3.7 km (2.3 mi). The name "cookiecutter shark" refers to its feeding habit of gouging round plugs, as if cut out with a cookie cutter, out of larger animals. Marks made by cookiecutter sharks have been found on a wide variety of marine mammals and fishes, as well as on submarines, undersea cables, and even human bodies.
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| class | Chondrichthyes | |
| order | Squaliformes | |
| family | Dalatiidae | |
| genus | Isistius | |
| species | I. brasiliensis |
