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

• 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; http://logon.lynx.lib.usm.edu/login?URL=http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs00300-003-0589-6.pdf

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...