Fig. 2 in Evasive mating behaviour by female nurse sharks, Ginglymostoma cirratum (Bonnaterre, 1788), in an equatorial insular breeding ground

Fig. 2. Nurse shark mating activity witnessed at Baía do Sueste, Fernando de Noronha. The panels depict (I) a coupling male shark (a) grasping the female pectoral fin with his mouth while coiling his body around the female, as evidenced by the alignment of male (b) first dorsal and (c) caudal fins; (II) a female shark ventral side up exhibiting emerged pelvic fins; (III) a female shark ventral side up rising her (d) right pectoral fin and (e) pelvic fins out of the water; (IV) a stranded female shark; (V) a female shark exhibiting f) a cloaca suggestive of earlier copulatory activity while being harassed by (g) a male shark; (VI) a female shark exhibiting (h-i) two small, crescent-shaped bite marks on the caudal fin.