The ghostly black feline shark [1] Apristurus manis is one of the species of the genus of black feline sharks ( Apristurus ), a family of feline sharks ( Scyliorhinidae ). It lives in the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean. It occurs at a depth of up to 1900 m. The maximum recorded length is 85 cm [2] [3] .
| Ghost black cat shark |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
| View: | Ghost black cat shark |
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Apristurus manis ( S. Springer , 1979) |
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Least ConcernedIUCN 3.1 Least Concern : 44599 |
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The species was first scientifically described in 1979 [4] . Species epithet comes from the word lat. manes is a ghost. The holotype is a female 32.8 cm long, caught southwest of Nantucket ( N. ) at a depth of 731–841 m. Paratypes: immature females 22.5-24.5 cm long and a male caught there at a depth of 658-841 m [5] .
This is a poorly studied deep-sea species that lives in the North Atlantic on the continental slopes off the coast of Ireland and Massachusetts at a depth of 600-1900 m. The average size is 76 cm. The maximum recorded length is 85 cm.
These sharks breed by egg-laying. Embryos feed exclusively on yolk.
Occasionally by- catch in deep-sea nets. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assigned this species the least threatening conservation status >.
- ↑ Reshetnikov Yu.S. , Kotlyar A.N. , Russ T.S. , Shatunovsky M.I. The Bilingual Dictionary of Animal Names. Fish. Latin, Russian, English, German, French. / edited by Acad. V. E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. Yaz., 1989 .-- S. 24. - 12 500 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00237-0 .
- ↑ Apristurus manis . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species .
- ↑ Ghostly Black Cat Shark (Eng.) In the FishBase database.
- ↑ Springer, S. A revision of the catsharks, Family Scyliorhinidae // NOAA Technical Report NMFS. - Circular, 1979. - Vol. 422. - P. 1-152.
- ↑ Apristurus manis (neopr.) . Shark references.
