Author: (Valenciennes, 1839)
FBname: Spinner shark
Comments: Found on the continental and insular shelves from close inshore to offshore (Ref. 244).  Makes vertical spinning leaps out of the water as a feeding technique in which the sharks spins through a school of small fish with an open mouth and then breaks the surface (Ref. 9997).  Feeds mainly on pelagic bony fishes, also small sharks, cuttlefish, squids, and octopi (Ref. 244, 5578).  Viviparous (Ref. 50449).  Forms schools (Ref. 244).  Highly migratory off Florida and Louisiana and in the Gulf of Mexico (Ref. 244).  Regularly caught in fisheries where found (Ref. 244).  Utilized fresh and dried salted for human consumption (Ref. 244).  Fins probably used in the oriental shark fin trade, and livers for vitamin oil production (Ref. 9997).