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Greenland shark profile🐟

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SpeciesSqualiformesSomniosidae
Sharks & rays

🐟Greenland shark

Somniosus microcephalus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)

格陵蘭鯊（學名：Somniosus microcephalus），又名小頭睡鯊、大西洋睡鯊、格陵蘭睡鯊、灰鯊，是一種大型鯊魚，其身形巨大，體長可以与大白鯊相提並論。格陵蘭鯊的居住地比任何鯊魚位於更北之地，其生活在格陵蘭和冰島周圍的北大西洋海域，是太平洋睡鯊的近親。

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
7
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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
Other figures ↓

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
AnAge
Details ↓

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
Details ↓

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
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 Greenland shark yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classElasmobranchii
  4. ›orderSqualiformes
  5. ›familySomniosidae
  6. ›genusSomniosus
  7. ›speciesSomniosus microcephalus
Full lineage
  1. superclassGnathostomata
  2. classSharks & rays · Chondrichthyes
  3. subclassElasmobranchii
  4. genusSomniosus
All 8 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. classSharks & rays · Chondrichthyes
  7. subclassElasmobranchii
  8. genusSomniosus
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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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