angel sharks
squatina latin

The two of them in turn form a clade with other angel sharks found in the Americas.

Angel sharks and common skate: Classed as critically endangered.

Familiar examples of ovoviviparous fish include guppies, angel sharks, and coelacanths.

Angel sharks live in the Pacific Ocean.

Like other angel sharks, the sand devil is viviparous with the developing embryos sustained by yolk.

Angel sharks have unique tails among sharks.

As in all angel sharks, it has a flattened body with greatly enlarged pectoral and pelvic fins.

Angel sharks are bottom-dwellers.

Angel sharks have historically been heavily fished but education has played a role in reducing overfishing of these slow-reproducing chondrichthyes.

Angels sharks - ambush predators (elasmo-research.org) Ambush predator (wikipedia.org)

ICES has called for an end to the fishing of common skate and for angel sharks to be given the highest possible protection.

Order Squatiniformes (angel sharks)

In bottom-dwelling sharks such as angel sharks, the spiracle allows them to take in water to breathe without having to open their mouths.

Angel sharks possess extensible jaws that can rapidly snap upwards to capture prey, and have long, needle-like teeth.

They have a caudal fin (tail) with the lower lobe being much longer in length than the upper, and are commonly referred to as angel sharks.

Diving in the popular swimming areas near the island, Bruder may have encountered docile angel sharks, and small species such as swell and horn sharks.

This species shares in common with other angel sharks a flattened body and large, wing-like pectoral fins whose anterior lobes are not fused to the head.

The Aquarium has over 50 sharks from species such as sevengill sharks, leopard sharks, soupfins, spiny dogfish, brown smoothhounds and angel sharks.

The angel sharks inhabiting the Gulf of California may also represent a different species, as they mature at a much smaller size than those from the rest of their range.

Squatina squatina, the angelshark, is a species of shark in the family Squatinidae (known generally also as angel sharks), once widespread in the coastal waters of the northeastern Atlantic Ocean.

The diving in this area includes caves, arches, walls and volcanic reefs, where an extremely wide range of sub-tropical marine species can be found, ranging from tiny seahorses up to rays and angel sharks.

Marie Baie des Anges Rocks jut like the fins of "angel sharks" in the sea near Nice, where a 15-year-old girl named Marie (Vahina Giocante) runs wild one summer.

The taxonomic status of angel sharks in the southeastern Pacific - whether they are S. californica, S. armata, or if there is more than one Squatina species in the region - remains unresolved.

Claudine Gibson, lead author of the report, said: "From angel sharks to devil rays, north east Atlantic populations of these vulnerable species are in serious trouble, more so than in many other parts of the world.

The word squatina is the angelshark's name in Latin, derived from the word for skate; it was made the genus name for all angel sharks by the French zoologist André Duméril in 1806.

Squatina heteroptera (Gulf angel shark)

A second group of fish also known as monkfish are members of the genus Squatina, in the angel shark family Squatinidae.

Squatina guggenheim (Angular angel shark)

Squatina aculeata (Sawback angelshark)

Squatina oculata (Smoothback angelshark)

Squatina tergocellatoides (Ocellated angelshark)

Previously, it had been regarded as the same species as the European Squatina squatina.

Sudanese savanna fauna consists of 70 diurnal mammals and more than 112 species of fish including monkfish Squatina aculeata.

Squatina squatina (Angelshark)

An angel shark is a shark in the genus Squatina, which are unusual in having flattened bodies and broad pectoral fins that give them a strong resemblance to rays.

The largest of the bottom-dwelling angelsharks (named for their shape rather than disposition) is the Common Angelshark (Squatina squatina) of the northeast Atlantic ocean.

Formerly known from only two specimens, further museum specimens were discovered at the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard University in the 1990s, having been misidentified as Squatina and Heterodontus.

The taxonomic status of angel sharks in the southeastern Pacific - whether they are S. californica, S. armata, or if there is more than one Squatina species in the region - remains unresolved.

The word squatina is the angelshark's name in Latin, derived from the word for skate; it was made the genus name for all angel sharks by the French zoologist André Duméril in 1806.

Monkfish (or headfish) is the English name of a number of types of fish in the northwest Atlantic, most notably the species of the anglerfish genus Lophius and the angelshark genus Squatina.

The ocellated angelshark, Squatina tergocellatoides, is an angel shark of the family Squatinidae found only from the Taiwan Straits in the western Pacific between latitudes 28 N and 22 N and in northern Malaysia.

The angular angel shark, Squatina guggenheim, is an angel shark of the family Squatinidae found off southern Brazil and Argentina at depths of between 4 and 265 m. Its length is up to 1.3 m.

A review of the systematics of western North Pacific angel sharks, genus Squatina, with redescriptions of Squatina formosa, S. japonica, and S. nebulosa(Chondrichthyes: Squatiniformes, Squatinidae).