Little sleeper shark
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S. rostratus
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| Somniosus rostratus A. Risso, 1827
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Somniosus bauchotae Quero, 1975 |
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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.
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Somniosus rostratus" in FishBase. May 2006 version.
