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Somniosidae
Pacific sleeper shark
Somniosus pacificus
Shark of Taiwanese Waters
- Circumpolar Arctic
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Pacific Ocean
- East Asia
- Polar regions
- Elongated
- Large
Circumpolar Arctic
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Elongated
LargePacific sleeper shark is known from North Pacific and Arctic as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.
- Class
- Sharks and Rays
- Order
- Dogfish Sharks
- Family
- Somniosidae
- Genus
- Somniosus
- Maximum length
- 440 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- North Pacific and Arctic: Taiwan to Japan and Kuril Islands, Sea of Okhotsk, southeastern Kamchatka, Commander and Aleutian Islands, and southern Baja California to Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Chukchi Sea and Beaufort Sea.
- Conservation status
- NTNear Threatened
Class
Family
Conservation status
