A Second Species of Arctic Shark: Pacific Sleeper Shark Somniosus pacificus from Point Hope, Alaska

We report a dead, 229-cm-long Pacific sleeper shark, Somniosus pacificus, discovered in 1998 along the shore at Point Hope, Alaska. This is the first definitive record of this species from within the Arctic Circle, the first definitive report of a shark from the Chukchi Sea, and the first report of...

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Main Authors: Benz, George W., Hocking, Richard, Kowunna, Abraham, Sr., Bullard, Stephen A., George, John C.
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: The Aquila Digital Community 2004
Subjects:
Life Sciences
Marine Biology
Arctic
Chukchi Sea
Greenland
Pacific
Point Hope
Chukchi
Alaska
Online Access:https://aquila.usm.edu/fac_pubs/3371
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Summary:We report a dead, 229-cm-long Pacific sleeper shark, Somniosus pacificus, discovered in 1998 along the shore at Point Hope, Alaska. This is the first definitive record of this species from within the Arctic Circle, the first definitive report of a shark from the Chukchi Sea, and the first report of a shark other than a Greenland shark from within the Arctic Circle.

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