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Researchers have discovered a new species of "ghost shark" that exclusively lives in the deep waters surrounding Australia and New Zealand.The Australasian narrow-nosed spookfish has a long ...
Scientists from the Shark Specialist Group, a division of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, said that 16 per cent of ghost shark species are “threatened” or “near ...
The newly discovered species of ghost shark, known as a spookfish. It may be early to get the Halloween decorations out for most, but in the deep waters of the Pacific Ocean spooky season is well ...
Chimaera bahamaensis, commonly known as the Bahamas ghost shark, is a species of fish in the family Chimaeridae. It is found in North Atlantic Ocean around the Bahamas , specifically it has been found east of Andros Island .
Hydrolagus marmoratus Didier, 2008 (marbled ghost shark) Hydrolagus matallanasi Soto & Vooren, 2004 (striped rabbitfish) Hydrolagus mccoskeri L. A. K. Barnett, Didier, Long & Ebert, 2006 (Galápagos ghostshark) Hydrolagus melanophasma K. C. James, Ebert, Long & Didier, 2009 (Eastern Pacific black ghostshark)
The whitespot ghost shark was first described in 2006 by Kimberly Quaranta, Dominique Didier, Douglas Long, and David Ebert in Zootaxa. The specific name, alphus, is Latin and refers to the white spot on its skin. [2] Because the species' habitat is too rough for trawls to operate in, the species has only been discovered using submersibles.
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The ghost shark was found at a depth of around 1,200 meters (about 3,900 feet) on the Chatham Rise. “We don’t actually know a lot about ghost sharks,” Finucci told CNN at the time. “What ...