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The frilled shark eats a diet of cephalopods, Nudibranchs, smaller sharks, and bony fish; [2] 60 percent of the diet is composed of squid varieties, such as the Chiroteuthis, the Histioteuthis, and the Onychoteuthis, the Sthenoteuthis and the Todarodes; [17] and other sharks, as indicated by the stomach contents of a 1.6 m (5.2 ft)–long ...
The first shark-like chondrichthyans appeared in the oceans 400 million years ago, [1] developing into the crown group of sharks by the Early Jurassic. [2] Listed below are extant species of shark. Sharks are spread across 556 described and 23 undescribed species in eight orders. The families and genera within the orders are listed in ...
The frilled shark (Chlamydoselachus anguineus) is one of two extant species of shark in the family Chlamydoselachidae, with a wide but patchy distribution in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. More selected pictures
Frilled sharks, often called 'living fossils' are one of those lesser-known species -- and a man. Most shark reports concern the more common varieties, but there are more than 400 known species of ...
It contains two extant and four extinct species. The most widely known species still surviving is the frilled shark (Chlamydoselachus anguineus). It is known as a living fossil, along with Chlamydoselachus africana, also known as the southern African frilled shark, which is only found along coastal areas of South Africa. The only two extant ...
They are one of only two extant families in the order alongside the cow sharks in the family Hexanchidae, and the only members of the suborder Chlamydoselachoidei. [1] [2] They are now represented only by two extant species in the genus Chlamydoselachus: the frilled shark (C. anguineus) and the Southern African frilled shark (C. africana).
Get excited for the 35th official Shark Week, from July 23 to July 29, with these shark facts. Sharks are millions of years older than dinosaurs and 5 other facts that may surprise you Skip to ...
The southern African frilled shark is found from off the coast of southern Angola to Namibia and South Africa. [3] Frilled sharks have also been captured off South Africa, at 1,230–1,400 m (4,040–4,590 ft) deep off Eastern Cape Province, and at 300 m (980 ft) deep off KwaZulu-Natal Province; it is uncertain whether these specimens are C. africana.