Crocodile shark in a 1936 issue of "Zoological Magazine (Tokyo)" by ichthyologist Kiyomatsu Matsubara, based on a long specimen found at the Koti Fish Market in Japan. The type specimen is a long adult male found at a fish market in Su-ao, Taiwan. After being shuffled between the genera "Carcharias" and "Odontaspis" in the family Odontaspididae by various authors, in 1973 Leonard Compagno resurrected Jean Cadenat's 1963 subgenus "Pseudocarcharias" from synonymy for this species and placed it within its own family. The morphology of the crocodile shark suggests affinity with the megamouth shark (Megachasmidae), basking shark (Cetorhinidae), thresher sharks (Alopiidae), and mackerel
Fish stringer Fish stringer A fish stringer is a line of rope or chain along which a fisherman can string fish so they can be immersed and kept alive in water. A rope stringer "(pictured)" is the simplest type of fish stringer. It consists of a line of rope or wire with a stringing needle made of metal or hardwood at one end. The other end usually has a removable wire ring which can be used to secure the stringer. Using the needle, the stringer is threaded through the fish gill and out through its mouth, or better, it is threaded through