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Greenland
Shark
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The Greenland
shark, Somniosus microcephalus, eats
char, halibut, herring, lumpfish and salmon among
other fishes, also marine mammals such as
seals, and sea lions. It is a large
shark native to the waters of the North Atlantic
Ocean around Greenland and Iceland, living further
north than any other species. The Greenland
shark is ovoviviparous and can have litters of up
to 10 pups. Adults can be brown, black, purplish
gray or slate gray, while the sides may have a purple
tinge, or may have dark bands or white spots. Greenland
sharks are also known as sleeper shark, gurry shark,
ground shark, or grey shark.
The Greenlandshark suffers from a parasite called
a copepod, a whitish-yellow creature that can be
up to 3 inches in size, that attaches itself to the
cornea of the eye. Most sharks have at least one
copepod.
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Picture of eye of Greenland
shark, Somniosus microcephalus, demonstating copepod on eye, Microcephalus somniosus, Lancaster Sound, Nunavut, Canada, Arctic Ocean
Picture #: 092712 |
Image of Greenland sleeper
shark, Somniosus microcephalus, and photographer,
St. Lawrence River estuary, Canada. This shark was
wild and unrestrained; it was not hooked and tail-roped.
Picture #: 035404-V |
Stock photo of Greenland
shark, Somniosus microcephalus,and
divers, St. Lawrence River estuary, Canada. This
shark was wild and unrestrained; it was not hooked
and tail-roped.
Picture #: 035416 |
Photo of Greenland sleeper
shark, Somniosus microcephalus, bycatch from bottom trawl, Northern Barents sea, Arctic, North East Atlantic
Picture #: 097166 |
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Picture of of Greenland
sleeper shark, Somniosus microcephalus,
and diver, St. Lawrence River estuary, Canada. This shark was
wild and unrestrained; it was not hooked and tail-roped.
Picture #: 035418 |
Image of Greenland
shark, Somniosus microcephalus, captured through sea ice, off northern Baffin Island, Canada, Arctic
Picture #: 009757 |
Stock photo of Greenland
sleeper shark, Somniosus microcephalus, swims over plumose or frilled anemones, Metridium senile, and northern red anemone, Tealia felina or Urticina felina, St. Lawrence River estuary, Canada.
This shark was wild and unrestrained; it was not
hooked and tail-roped.
Picture #: 035443 |
Photo of Greenland
sleeper shark, Somniosus microcephalus,
under surface, Lancaster Sound, Arctic Ocean,
Nunavut, Canada
Picture #: 092716 |
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Picture of of Greenland
sleeper shark, Somniosus microcephalus,
and diver, St. Lawrence River estuary, Canada. This shark was
wild and unrestrained; it was not hooked and tail-roped.
Picture #: 035419 |
Image of a Greenland
sleeper shark, Somniosus microcephalus, under surface, Lancaster Sound, Arctic Ocean,
Nunavut, Canada
Picture #: 092714 |
Stock photo of a Greenland
sleeper shark, Somniosus microcephalus,
and divers, St. Lawrence River estuary, Canada. This shark was
wild and unrestrained; it was not hooked and tail-roped.
Picture #: 035425 |
Photo of a Greenland
sleeper shark, Somniosus microcephalus, and
divers, St. Lawrence River estuary, Canada. This
shark was wild and unrestrained; it was not hooked
and tail-roped.
Picture #: 035424 |
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Picture of a Greenland
sleeper shark, Somniosus microcephalus,captured through sea ice, off northern Baffin Island, Canada, Arctic
Picture #: 009758 |
Image of Greenland
sleeper shark, Somniosus microcephalus,
St. Lawrence River estuary, Canada. This shark was
wild and unrestrained; it was not hooked and tail-roped.
Picture #: 035427 |
Stock photo of Greenland
sleeper shark, Somniosus microcephalus, and
photographer, St. Lawrence River estuary, Canada.
This shark was wild and unrestrained; it was not
hooked and tail-roped.
Picture #: 035428 |
Photo of Greenland
sleeper shark, Somniosus microcephalus, swims over plumose or frilled anemones, Metridium senile, and northern red anemone, Tealia felina or Urticina felina, St. Lawrence River estuary, Canada.
This shark was wild and unrestrained; it was not
hooked and tail-roped.
Picture #: 035442 |
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Picture of Greenland
sleeper shark, Somniosus microcephalus, St. Lawrence River estuary, Canada.
This shark was wild and unrestrained; it was not
hooked and tail-roped.
Picture #: 035446 |
Image of Greenland
shark under ice, Somniosus microcephalus, Lancaster
Sound, Nunavut, northern Baffin Island, Canada, Arctic
Picture #: 099662 |
Stock photo of Greenland
shark under ice, Somniosus microcephalus,St. Lawrence River estuary, Canada.
This shark was wild and unrestrained; it was not
hooked and tail-roped.
Picture #: 035454 |
Photo of Greenland
shark under ice, Somniosus microcephalus,captured through sea ice, off northern Baffin Island, Canada, Arctic
Picture #: 009756 |
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