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SpeciesSqualiformesSomniosidae

Sharks & rays

🐟Greenland shark

Somniosus microcephalus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)

Der Grönlandhai oder Eishai (Somniosus microcephalus) ist ein Hai aus der Ordnung der Dornhaiartigen (Squaliformes). Bislang ist wenig über die Art bekannt. Untersuchungen aus dem Jahr 2016 ergaben, dass Grönlandhaie einige hundert Jahre alt werden können und somit von allen bekannten Wirbeltierarten das höchste Alter erreichen.

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≈ 18× your weight

Conservation status

VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.

Population trendDecreasing

Key measurements

Body mass: 1,100 kg
Body length: 4.27 m
Shoulder height: not recorded
Top speed: not recorded
Bite force: not recorded
Maximum lifespan: 392 years

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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Greenland shark

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass

1,100 kgaverage

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Species-level value synthesised as the mean of: female.

By sex

Female1,100 kgFishBasev25.04

Body length

4.27 mmaximum recorded

FishBase

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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

By sex

Female5.5 mFishBasev25.04

Maximum lifespan

392 yearsrecord 392 years · FishBase

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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level

4.22

FishBase

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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet

carnivoreaverage

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From trophic level 4.22 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans

poisonous to eat

FishBase

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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l

1,100 Laverage

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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Greenland shark yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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In other languages

håkjerring (nb), Groenlandse haai (nl), håkäring (sv), Somniosus microcephalus (it), гренландска акула (bg), tauró de Grenlàndia (ca) … and 26 more languages

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