Lemon Shark

• GeneralIts pups grow up sheltered among mangrove roots for years.
• It is one of the few large sharks that live in groups, and that social life brings it real advantages: better communication, courtship, hunting and protection.
• Females are faithful to their breeding grounds: they return to give birth in the same mangrove nursery where they were born, and the pups spend their first years there.
• Females are polyandrous: a single litter can have several fathers.
• It hunts mostly at night and locates its prey with the electroreceptors of its snout, the ampullae of Lorenzini.
• It owes its name to its yellowish skin, which camouflages it over the sandy bottoms of the Caribbean.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - cartilaginous skeleton (chondrichthyan fish)

Habitat and environment

Mangroves, coastal lagoons and shallow reefs

Sexual maturity

12.7 years

Gestation / incubation

From 10 to 12 months, with a biennial breeding cycle

Litter / clutch size

7.4 (average)

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negaprion_brevirostris