Fig. 4.

Specimen of cookiecutter sharks of the genus Isistius brasiliensis and the unsuccessful C-shaped bitemarks they can produce. a Isistius brasiliensis are small brownish cigar-shaped sharks sporting fleshy lips and extremely sharp teeth. This specimen from the Natural History Museum in Paris, France was used to b experimentally reconstruct a bitemark in plasticine. c The lesion analysed in the present case from Kauai, in Hawaii, shares some macroscopic similarities with d a superficial C-shaped lesion on the thorax of a male diver off to Maui, also in Hawaii, reported by Honebrink et al. [20]. The outline of the bitemark was reconstructed after Honebrink et al. (2001)