Southern Sleeper Shark
Somniosus antarcticus
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Sharks and rays
The southern sleeper shark, or Whitley's sleeper shark, 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, near South Africa, southern Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand, as well as more remote locations in the south-central Indian Ocean.
Classification
- Class
- Chondrichthyes
- Order
- Squaliformes
- Family
- Somniosidae
- Genus
- Somniosus