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Somniosus antarcticus Whitley, 1939

Southern sleeper shark
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Somniosus antarcticus
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Elasmobranquios (tiburones y rayas) (sharks and rays) > Squaliformes (Sleeper and dogfish sharks) > Somniosidae (Sleeper sharks)
Etymology: Somniosus: Latin for sleepy, reflecting Lesueur’s surmise that these sharks are slow or sluggish because of their relatively small fins (hence the name sleeper sharks) (See ETYFish)antarcticus: -icus (L.), belonging to: the Antarctic (Whitley presumed this to be the first shark recorded from there) (See ETYFish).
More on author: Whitley.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecología

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