Animalia > Chordata > Elasmobranchii > Squaliformes > Somniosidae > Somniosus > Somniosus rostratus

Somniosus rostratus (little sleeper shark)

Synonyms: Scymnus rostratus; Somniosus bauchotae

Wikipedia Abstract

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 between 200 and 1,000 m. Its length is up to 1.43 m.
View Wikipedia Record: Somniosus rostratus

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Acanthobothrium coronatum[1]
Sphyriocephalus viridis[1]

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♦ 1Pollerspöck, J. & Straube, N. (2015), Bibliography database of living/fossil sharks, rays and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii, Holocephali) -Host-Parasites List/Parasite-Hosts List-, World Wide Web electronic publication, Version 04/2015;
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0