Little sleeper shark
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Little sleeper shark
| Little sleeper shark | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Squaliformes |
| Family: | Somniosidae |
| Genus: | Somniosus |
| Species: | S. rostratus |
| Binomial name | |
| Somniosus rostratus (A. Risso, 1827) |
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| Range of the little sleeper shark (in blue) | |
The little sleeper shark, Somniosus rostratus, is a sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae found in the northeast Atlantic, western Mediterranean, and western Pacific around New Zealand, at depths of between 200 and 1,000 m. Its length is up to 1.43 m.
References
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Somniosus rostratus" in FishBase. May 2006 version.
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