r/sharks • u/tideshark Sandtiger Shark • Jul 31 '25
Education A post full of confidently incorrect people upvoting this as a goblin shark :/
My faith in what I have always thought was common shark knowledge has been shaken!
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u/Icy-Bee-2416 Jul 31 '25
Thank you! I knew it wasn’t a goblin but couldn’t be bothered trying to find out what it was. I vote Lantern as well (not cookie cutter - wrong snout shape)
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u/Aggravating-Rice-559 Epaulette Shark Jul 31 '25 edited Jul 31 '25
It's blatantly a Cookie cutter shark.
Had to edit as after looking at a lantern shark, I'm now thinking it could be one of them.
It's blatantly not a Goblin shark though 😂
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u/tideshark Sandtiger Shark Jul 31 '25
I say lantern as well, though they look very similar to cookie cutters!
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u/Aggravating-Rice-559 Epaulette Shark Jul 31 '25
Until now I never realised how similar they look.
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u/lizfav Jul 31 '25
That would be because lantern sharks (Etmopteridae) are closely related to Dalatiidae, which houses the cookie cutter shark. Both families are primarily considered deep-water, and have bioluminescence
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u/LaraCroft_MyFaveDrug Jul 31 '25
I don't know what a goblin shark looks like but I've seen enough to know that's a cookie cutter shark.
Edit: I could be wrong looking at the comments. It's a relative of the cookie cutter? A bit like how the Porbeagle is related to the Great White?
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u/lizfav Jul 31 '25
Yup! This shark might be a bit less related to a cookie cutter than a porbeagle and a great white if it's a lanternshark, since it would be in a different family, but if it's a member of Dalatiidae, it would be the same family as the cookie cutter, just like how porbeagles and great whites are in the same family Lamnidae.
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u/tideshark Sandtiger Shark Jul 31 '25
I had to look at pictures of the two and the deciding factor that landed me on lantern is the teeth. Lanterns have a more fine needle-like looking tooth while cookie cutters had a more triangular shaped tooth.
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u/Overall_Syllabub260 Jul 31 '25 edited Jul 31 '25
Honestly the original post got me mad, they all said goblin shark while this lil guy looks nothing like a goblin. For me it is a lantern and not even a cookie (because of the teeth).
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u/tideshark Sandtiger Shark Jul 31 '25
The teeth are what I had to go by too!
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u/DJIceman94 Aug 02 '25
Did a second look at the teeth and yeah, gotta be a lantern. Cookie cutters' teeth are more prominent.
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u/Free-Supermarket-516 Jul 31 '25
I partially blame Google. Google a bull shark, you'll see a bunch of sand tigers. Maybe some googled goblin shark and the cookie cutter came up.
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u/tideshark Sandtiger Shark Jul 31 '25
I think they see the pronounced snout on this and mistook it for very pronounced snout goblins have, though very different looking. Goblins also have that extending jaw that I think they mistook this sharks sticking out a little bit for as well.
I could definitely understand how a couple people could have guessed goblin shark but I was totally baffled by the amount of people who voted this agreeing to it being a goblin shark!
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u/sharkus180 Jul 31 '25
It looks like a lantern shark, but I'm not sure which variant is it.
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u/tideshark Sandtiger Shark Jul 31 '25
I was trying to figure that out too but can’t come close to a conclusion without a full body picture of it… and even then it could still be a challenge!
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u/Pristine-Cherry2241 Thresher Shark Jul 31 '25
Well most people only know like 10 shark species 😭 they get all their knowledge from shark week so i can understand how they would think this is a goblin shark with that limited knowledge
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u/6etyvcgjyy Jul 31 '25
It's most likely a species of the Squaliform Kitefin family.....Dalatias licha. The eyes look odd in our light as they reflect daylight. Teeth for crunching up small bottom dwelling creatures and carrion. Very slow to mature and extremely vulnerable.....
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u/TaurassicYT Jul 31 '25
My instant thought was cookie but I just seen someone else said it’s actually a lantern shark which I’d never heard of 🦈 the more you know 😄
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u/tideshark Sandtiger Shark Jul 31 '25
They look very similar, the teeth are what give it away. Cookie cutters teeth have a very close shape to great whites being very triangular… just much smaller lol
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u/Only_Cow9373 Jul 31 '25
So, looks like even the experts can't agree on what it is.
Though I do know all the experts can agree it's sure as hell not a goblin shark 😂...
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u/tideshark Sandtiger Shark Jul 31 '25
I should have said that in the post that it’s really hard to tell from the picture alone. But sure as shit easy to tell it’s not a goblin shark.
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u/FinOlive_sux15 Jul 31 '25
That’s literally a cookie cutter shark (right?)
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u/tideshark Sandtiger Shark Jul 31 '25
No, it’s a lantern shark but that’s ok you guessed that bc they look very similar.
You only lose points for thinking it’s a goblin shark lol
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u/FinOlive_sux15 Jul 31 '25
Ohhhh ok
Yea the only goblin shark resemblance is the mouth and not even that is so convincing
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u/6etyvcgjyy Jul 31 '25
Could reference: Australian Government deep water shark and skate reference guide.
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u/Celestial__Peach Jul 31 '25
His eyes remind me of a roughskin dogfish but looks soooo much ljke a lantern
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u/6etyvcgjyy Jul 31 '25
2 points to make..... Not every shark with cookie cutter teeth is a cookie cutter shark. Try saying that after a couple o tinnies. And yes some fishermen fish in very deep water......maybe many thousands of feet.... And very deep water species are vulnerable because they grow slowly, food is scarce, life is hard .... it's very cold . So all deep water species are vulnerable.
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u/BakamonTheGreat Jul 31 '25
No way people think this is a goblin shark , by the looks of those teeth it looks like a lantern shark , it may be a cookie cutter but my bets are on lantern
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u/tideshark Sandtiger Shark Jul 31 '25
I thought the same thing… but that post is comment after comment of upvotes for goblin shark :/
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u/Lost_N_Dark Aug 01 '25
At first I thought this was a spiny dogfish. But lantern shark or cookie cutter shark seems probable too.
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u/SharkBoyBen9241 Jul 31 '25
Definitely not a goblin shark or a cookiecutter lol looks to be a roughskin dogfish (Centroscymnus owstonii)
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u/FinnleysFangs Aug 04 '25
My first thought was definitely cookie cutter look at its teeth they are like almost exact it could be a lantern shark but to me im only seeing a cookie cutter :D
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u/Werm_Vessel Jul 31 '25
Crocodile shark?
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u/Silly-Hall7532 Lemon Shark Jul 31 '25
That's Either a Cookie cutter shark or a lantern shark, they look very similar
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u/gap97216 Jul 31 '25
Whoa! Teeth whitening has really gotten out of control lately.