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Angular roughshark!
Have you seen the angular roughshark (Oxynotus centrina)?
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Daily fish fact #427
Caribbean roughshark!
These sharks live in the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, at depths of 400 to 450 meters (1 310 to 1480 feet)! They also have spear-shaped upper teeth and blade-like lower teeth.
The Prickly Dogfish (Oxynotus bruniensis) is a deep-sea shark, endemic of the deep waters of southern Australia and New Zealand, also is one of five Angular sharks species known to science. Despite they are triangular shaped, with distinctive body characteristics, the sightings of individual in nature seem to be uncommon and their life history is virtually unknown.
But everytime we know more about these rare sharks. In a recent study, Australian and New Zealand researchers, using molecular analysis and looking at stomach content figured out that these sharks are feeding primarily on the eggs and embryos of chimaeras, potentially making it the only known elasmobranch with a diet reliant solely upon other chondrichthyans.
The prickly dogfish’s diet include the Pacific spookfish (Rhinochimaera pacifica) and the brown chimaera (Chimaera carophila), besides the longnose chimaera (H. raleighana) a chimaera similar to zero from Nightmare Before Christmas movie.
- Examples of stomach contents from a prickly Dogfish, including (a) egg case fragments and (b) a longnose chimaera embryo.
Apparently, is not a sole example, in 2015, Spanish researchers proved that the Atlantic angular roughshark (Oxynotus centrina) preys on the egg cases of other elasmobranchs, as well on another small invertebrates.
Photo by Mark Norman
Reference: Finucci, et al. 2016. Reproductive biology and feeding habits of the prickly dogfish Oxynotus bruniensis. Journal of Fish Biology
The angular roughshark (Oxynotus centrina) at 60/70 m depth in Saint Thecla, Italy.
Photo by Ignazio Riccioli Underwater Photographer
