#puffadder shyshark

[shark-a-day]

Todays shark is...

The Puffadder Shyshark!

Fun Fact: Just like the Dark Shyshark, Puffadders will curl into a circle with its tail covering its eyes when threatened!

[animal-families-tournaments]

Selachii infraclass, round 1: Puffadder Shyshark vs Blacknose Shark

Puffadder Shyshark

Blacknose Shark

Voting ended onMay 4

[just-here-for-shark-stuff]

Daily Shark Fact - 4/9/2025

Today's shark is the puffadder shyshark!

The basics: the puffadder shyshark (Haploblepharus edwardsii) is a small species of catshark native exclusively to the continental shelf along South Africa. They are slow-moving sharks, named for their coloration resembling the puff adder snake - though they don't act like that notoriously huffy and defensive snake at all! Like other shysharks in their genus, they earned the "shy" moniker by their threat response: when they feel threatened, they curl up and hide their faces with their tails.

Conservation status: endangered. Though the puffadder shyshark is common within its range, that range is very, very small. Puffadder shysharks are too small to have any commercial fishing value, but its entire range is within an area that is heavily fished, and an increase in fishing (or even an increase in fishing methods that result in more bycatch of the species) or habitat loss could easily and rapidly threaten the whole population.

Today's fun fact: it's been observed in a few small studies that the gender of a puffadder shyshark might predict its preferred food! Barring other factors, female individuals tend towards preferring crustaceans, while males prefer to eat polychaetes (marine annelid worms).

[totallyhumanbro]

Sharktober Day 15

Theme: Shark Civilization

This one was supposed to be inspired by ancient Greece, but it wasn't very good.

[themesopelagiczone]

earth fact time. meet the shyshark, the largest species of catshark. when they get scared, they curl up with their tails over their eyes, which is why they're called shysharks!

pictures, in order: brown shyshark, natal shyshark, dark shyshark, puffadder shyshark

inaturalist nz | florida museum

photos: andy murch | andy murch | andy murch | doug perrine

[animal-families-tournaments]

Selachii infraclass, round 2: Speckled Carpetshark vs Puffadder Shyshark

Speckled Carpetshark

Puffadder Shyshark

Voting ended onMay 11

[animal-families-tournaments]

Selachii infraclass, round 3: Blacktip Reef Shark vs Puffadder Shyshark

Blacktip Reef Shark

Puffadder Shyshark

Voting ended onMay 20

[broganwen]

Which Shark is your favourite design?

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Voting ended onDec 14, 2024

I've been designing more tattoos that I have too much social anxiety to actually get.

So this is a Puffadder Shyshark, my favourite of all the sharks. They coil up when they feel threatened and hide their faces with their tails. They are adorable and I love them.

So my tattoo idea is to have one that wraps around the arm or leg like a shyshark hiding behind their tail. I was experimenting with whether or not I actually wanted the head behind the tail or the tail folded over the head, etc. so here are the three concepts I've come up with.

I know which is my favourite and which I'd hypothetically get (if I cleaned up my line weight and spoke to people), but I'm curious about other people's opinions.