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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 ...
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 ...
The Eastern Pacific black ghostshark (Hydrolagus melanophasma, literally a combination of "water rabbit" and "black ghost") is a species of fish in the family Chimaeridae. [2] Despite its name, it does not belong to the clade Selachii used for the modern classification of sharks.
Alternative names include elephant shark, makorepe (in Māori), whitefish, plough-nose chimaera, or elephant fish. It is found off southern Australia, including Tasmania, and south of East Cape and Kaipara Harbour in New Zealand, at depths of 0–200 m (0–656 ft). Despite several of its names, it is not a shark, but a member of a closely ...
Estimations of growth and age have only been attempted for a quarter of the species known. [2] This species has a medium-sized body with a tapered whip-like tail. [3] Its length is up to 1.12 m. [4]
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