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Somniosidae
Portuguese shark
Centroscymnus coelolepis
Even whale flesh feeds this abyssal hunter
- Transcontinental
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Central America and the Caribbean
- East Asia
- Europe
- North America
- Oceania
- Elongated
- Large
Transcontinental
Marine fish
Africa
Elongated
LargePortuguese shark is a marine fish found around Western Atlantic. It inhabits marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 121 cm.
- Class
- Sharks and Rays
- Order
- Dogfish Sharks
- Family
- Somniosidae
- Genus
- Centroscymnus
- Maximum length
- 121 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: Grand Banks to Delaware, USA; Cuba (Ref. 26340 ). Eastern Atlantic: Iceland south along Atlantic slope to the southwestern Cape coast of South Africa; also western Mediterranean. Western Pacific: off Japan, New Zealand, and Australia (Ref. 6871 , 31367 ). Western Indian Ocean: Seychelles (Ref. 76802 ).
- Conservation status
- NTNear Threatened
Class
Family
Conservation status
