Southern Sleeper Shark
Somniosus antarcticus
Classification
- Class
- Elasmobranchii
- Order
- Squaliformes
- Family
- Somniosidae
En zoologie, le nom vernaculaire requin dormeur désigne plusieurs espèces de requins. Il est d’usage de qualifier de requins dormeurs de nombreux genres et espèces de requins qui présentent des caractéristiques morphologiques et comportementales semblables. Les requins dormeurs "véritables" sont définis comme appartenant à l’ordre des hétérodontiformes, qui comporte 9 espèces du genre Heterodontus.
The southern sleeper shark, or Whitley's sleeper shark (Somniosus antarcticus), is a deepwater benthopelagic sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae found in the southern and subantarctic extremes of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans, and some northern reaches of the Antarctic oceans. It has been recorded near the southernmost areas of South America (such as Tierra del Fuego and the Strait of Magellan), near South Africa, southern Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand, as well as more remote locations in the south-central Indian Ocean. Taxonomy The southern sleeper shark was formerly…
El tiburón dormilón del sur (Somniosus antarcticus) es una especie de elasmobranquio escualiforme de la familia Somniosidae. Se distribuye amplia, pero irregularmente en el océano Atlántico sur e Indo-Pacífico, habitando aguas profundas y antárticas. Habita de forma nativa aguas de la Antártida, Argentina, Australia, Chile, Nueva Zelanda, Perú y Sudáfrica.
Distribution
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