🐟Southern sleeper shark
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.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.
- Body mass
- not recorded
- Body length
- 4.38 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Southern sleeper shark
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body length4.38 mmaximum recordedFishBaseOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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By sex
- Female4.3 mFishBasev25.04
Trophic level4.47FishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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DietcarnivoreaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
From trophic level 4.47 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.
Danger to humansharmlessFishBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Southern sleeper shark yet: body mass, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classElasmobranchii
- ›orderSqualiformes
- ›familySomniosidae
- ›genusSomniosus
- ›speciesSomniosus antarcticus
- superclassGnathostomata
- classSharks & rays · Chondrichthyes
- subclassElasmobranchii
- genusSomniosus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- classSharks & rays · Chondrichthyes
- subclassElasmobranchii
- genusSomniosus
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