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Little sleeper shark

Little sleeper shark
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Squaliformes
Family: Somniosidae
Genus: Somniosus
Species:
S. rostratus
Binomial name
Somniosus rostratus
A. Risso, 1827
Range of the little sleeper shark (in blue)
Synonyms

Somniosus bauchotae Quero, 1975 Scymnus rostratus Risso, 1827

The little sleeper shark (Somniosus rostratus) is a small 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.


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