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The genera and species of the family "Angelsharks"


Japanese angelshark

Typical species:
Japanese angelshark
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Family: Angelsharks

Squatinidae

Numbers of genera and species

Genera:

1

Species:

24

Angelsharks

Angelsharks are very unique looking. Their body is very flat and bizarre-shaped. Compared to the similar looking batoids (rays) their pectoral fins are not connected to their heads. The lower lobe of the caudal fin is longer than the upper one. Angel sharks lack an anal fin. They show a wide distribution in temperate and tropical waters from close inshore to the upper continental slopes down to more than 1300 m . Except for the Japanese angelshark, Squatina japonica, which reaches 2 m, are all others of smaller size. Angel sharks have an ovoviviparous style of reproduction (aplacental viviparity). All more than 20 species belong to the same genus.

Genus: Squatina
(Species: 24)
Including full text, photo, distriburion map:

(Squatina californica)
(Squatina dumeril)
(Squatina aculeata)
(Squatina squatina)
(Squatina oculata)
(Squatina australis)
(Squatina japonica)
(Squatina tergocellata)
(Squatina africana)
(Squatina armata)
(Squatina guggenheim)
(Squatina occulta)
(Squatina argentina)
(Squatina nebulosa)
(Squatina albipunctata)
(Squatina pseudocellata)
(Squatina caillieti)
(Squatina david)
(Squatina varii)
(Squatina mapama)
(Squatina leae)

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