AnimalvsAnimal
🦈no photo yet

No photo yet — browse the gallery for other animals.

SpeciesCarcharhiniformesTriakidae
Sharks & rays

🦈Gummy shark

Mustelus antarcticus Günther, 1870

극지별상어(Gummy shark, Mustelus antarcticus)는 흉상어목 까치상어과에 속하는 물고기이다. 몸길이는 1.8m로 상어에서는 중소형인 어류에 속하는 어종이다.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Videos
None yet
Photos
None yet
Measurements
8
vs you
≈ 1/4th of your weight
Also called
Sweet William
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
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
All measurements ↓
Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Gummy shark

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

Body mass
17 kgrecord 31 kg · FishBase
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

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

Body length
1.57 mmaximum recorded
FishBase
Other figures ↓

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

By sex

  • Female1.75 mFishBasev25.04
Maximum lifespan
16 yearsrecord 16 years · FishBase
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

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

Litter size
about 16
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

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

Trophic level
4.45
FishBase
Details ↓

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

Diet
carnivoreaverage
Details ↓

From trophic level 4.45 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
harmless
FishBase
Details ↓

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

Volume l
17 Laverage
Details ↓

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.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classElasmobranchii
  4. ›orderCarcharhiniformes
  5. ›familyTriakidae
  6. ›genusMustelus
  7. ›speciesMustelus antarcticus
Full lineage
  1. subphylumVertebrata
  2. superclassGnathostomata
  3. classSharks & rays · Chondrichthyes
  4. subclassElasmobranchii
All 7 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. classSharks & rays · Chondrichthyes
  7. subclassElasmobranchii
More

More about the Gummy shark

In other languages
Australische toonhaai (nl), Mustelus antarcticus (es), Mustelus antarcticus (fr), Австралийская кунья акула (ru), Mustelus antarcticus (de), Mustelus antarcticus (it) … and 11 more languages
Videos

No videos of the Gummy shark yet.

We have 44,653 videos so far, and none of them features this animal yet.

All videos →
Tools

Compare the Gummy shark

Pick a tool — the Gummy shark is already selected.

Side by side

Compare every stat with any other animal.

994 animals to compareOpen →
Who's bigger?

Stand them on the same floor and see who's bigger.

229th heaviest of 780Open →
Scaling lab

How speed, brain and bite scale with body size. This animal isn't in the sample yet.

Not in the sampleOpen →
Tree of life

See where it sits in the tree of life.

7 branchesOpen →