🦈Gummy shark
L'émissole gommée (Mustelus antarcticus) ou "gummy shark" en anglais est une espèce de requins présente sur la côte sud de l'Australie jusqu'à une profondeur de 350 mètres. Non dangereux pour l'homme, il se nourrit principalement de crustacés, de vers, de petits poissons et de céphalopodes. Il peut atteindre une taille maximale de 157cm pour les mâles et 175cm pour les femelles.
Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.
- Body mass
- 17 kg
- Body length
- 1.57 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 16 years
Everything we know about the Gummy shark
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass17 kgrecord 31 kg · FishBaseAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Body length1.57 mmaximum recordedFishBaseOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
By sex
- Female1.75 mFishBasev25.04
Maximum lifespan16 yearsrecord 16 years · FishBaseAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Litter sizeabout 16AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Trophic level4.45FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0
DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 4.45 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humansharmlessFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0
Volume l17 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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 Gummy shark yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classElasmobranchii
- ›orderCarcharhiniformes
- ›familyTriakidae
- ›genusMustelus
- ›speciesMustelus antarcticus
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- classSharks & rays · Chondrichthyes
- subclassElasmobranchii
All 7 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- classSharks & rays · Chondrichthyes
- subclassElasmobranchii
More about the Gummy shark
No videos of the Gummy shark yet.
We have 44,653 videos so far, and none of them features this animal yet.
All videos →Compare the Gummy shark
Pick a tool — the Gummy shark is already selected.
Compare every stat with any other animal.
Stand them on the same floor and see who's bigger.
How speed, brain and bite scale with body size. This animal isn't in the sample yet.
See where it sits in the tree of life.