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    Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus), also known as the gurry shark or grey shark, is a large shark of the family Somniosidae ("sleeper sharks")...
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    Hákarl (redirect from Greenlandic Shark)
    referred to as fermented shark in English, is a national dish of Iceland consisting of Greenland shark or other sleeper shark that has been cured with...
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    corneas of the Greenland shark and Pacific sleeper shark. The parasites cause severe visual impairment, but it is thought that the sharks do not rely on...
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    the Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus), or the Pacific sleeper shark (Somniosus pacificus). A deepwater species, the southern sleeper shark is known...
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    Greenland shark, the parasitic copepod Ommatokoita elongata can often be observed consuming the shark's corneal tissue. Sharks portal Greenland shark...
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    tiger shark, blue shark, great white shark, mako shark, thresher shark, and hammerhead shark. Sharks are caught by humans for shark meat or shark fin soup...
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  • is a Greenland shark. The Greenland shark, which can reach up to 20 feet in length, inhabits the North Atlantic Ocean around Canada, Greenland, Iceland...
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    Somniosidae (redirect from Sleeper shark)
    1801 (Greenland shark) Somniosus pacificus Bigelow & Schroeder, 1944 (Pacific sleeper shark) Somniosus rostratus Risso, 1827 (little sleeper shark) Somniosus...
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    pelagios), Pacific sleeper sharks (Somniosus pacificus), Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus), and bluntnose sixgill sharks (Hexanchus griseus) broadly...
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    white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), also known as the white shark, white pointer, or simply great white, is a species of large mackerel shark which...
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    The blue shark (Prionace glauca), also known as the great blue shark, is a species of requiem shark, in the family Carcharhinidae, which inhabits deep...
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    In Iceland, hákarl is a national dish prepared using Greenland shark or sleeper shark. The shark meat is buried and fermented to cure it, and then hung...
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    sleeper shark) Somniosus longus (S. Tanaka (I), 1912) (frog shark) Somniosus microcephalus (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (Greenland shark) Somniosus...
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    The nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) is an elasmobranch fish in the family Ginglymostomatidae. The conservation status of the nurse shark is globally...
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  • be more than 300 years old. Some may live for over 1,000 years. The Greenland shark had been estimated to live to about 200 years, but a study published...
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    The lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris) is a species of shark from the family Carcharhinidae and is classified as a Vulnerable species by the International...
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    cookiecutter shark (Isistius brasiliensis), also called the cigar shark, is a species of small squaliform shark in the family Dalatiidae. This shark occurs...
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  • Ocean. It is in the sleeper shark family Somniosidae with the Greenland shark. The frog shark is known to grow to a maximum length of 110 cm in males and...
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    Fish vary greatly in size. The whale shark and basking shark exceed all other fish by a considerable margin in weight and length. Fish are a paraphyletic...
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    least 100 years . In fact, another member of the Squaliformes, the Greenland shark, is the longest living vertebrate with a male life span of at least...
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  • in the case of the Icelandic dish hákarl, the fermented meat of the Greenland shark. In 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer of the World...
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  • attacks), alligator gar, wels catfish, arapaima, piraíba, and the bull shark. All of them are potentially deadly creatures poorly understood by humans...
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    dogfish, the Greenland shark, and other six- and seven-gilled sharks. Some of the shark's relatives date back 200 million years. This shark is a notable...
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    H (August 2020). "Viviparity in the longest-living vertebrate, the Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus)". Placenta. 97: 26–28. doi:10.1016/j.placenta...
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    The oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus) is a large pelagic requiem shark inhabiting tropical and warm temperate seas. It has a stocky body...
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    The sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus), also known as the brown shark or thickskin shark, is a species of requiem shark, and part of the family Carcharhinidae...
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    White Sharks". PLOS ONE. 9 (4): e94407. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0094407. PMC 3989224. PMID 24740299. "Ep. 10. A Bathing Accident - Transcript". Shark Files...
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    Reindeer (redirect from Greenland caribou)
    case, the entire body of a reindeer was found in the stomach of a Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus), a species found in the far North Atlantic...
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  • and Jack Thorne Greenland cod, Gadus ogac Greenland Dog, husky breed Greenland halibut, Reinhardtius hippoglossoides Greenland shark, Somniosus microcephalus...
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    Carpet sharks are sharks classified in the order Orectolobiformes /ɒrɛkˈtɒləbɪfɔːrmiːz/. Sometimes the common name "carpet shark" (named so because many...
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