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December 2, 2008
ANGEL SHARK KINGDOM- ANIMALIA PHYLUM- CHORDATA; species which have verteabres CLASSCHONDRICHTHYES; jawed fish with paired fins, paired nostrils, scales, two-chambered hearts, and skeletons made of cartilage rather than bone. SUBCLASSELASMOBRANCHII; is the subclass of cartilaginous fish that includes skates, rays (batoidea), and sharks (selachii). ORDERSQUATINIFORMES FAMILY- SQUATINIDAE GENUS- SQUATINA
BY: DYLAN PEARCE
Photo from Flickr user: greenacre8
Angel Shark Information The Angel Shark unlike its relatives has a flat body with broad pectoral fins, looking closer to a ray or skate. Angel sharks are ovoviviparous, with litters known up to 13 pups. Births pimariliy occur between march and June. Being Ovoviviparous mean that the eggs hatch inside the mother and there is no placenta to sustain the young. The young survive soley on a nutrient rich yolk which when that runs out birth is near. Males tend to reach sexual maturity earlier than females at the age of 8 years, while females reach
sexual maturity around the age temperate and tropical of 13 years. enviorments staying in shallow waters from 10 to 328 feet Angel Sharks are primarily deep. These bottom dewellers Carnivores that feed off boney hide in mud and sand till prey fish, squids, and octopuses. comes to them, they are Theyʼre preyed upon only by known to stay up to 3 weeks in larger sharks usually the Great one spot waiting for a meal. White. Due to their exotic appereance The angel shark is related to they were heavily poached but all other sharks but the idea of when facts and numbers were being related to the ray is still being uncovered hope began under studies with background for these slow-reproducing checks. chondrichthyes. Angel Sharks are found primarily of the coast of California but range along the Pacifc coast of North and South America, in Marine
The Angel Shark is protected under the Wildlife and Countyside Act. It was placed there in April 2008 by the UK Government.
ANGEL SHARK KINGDOM- ANIMALIA PHYLUM- CHORDATA; species which have verteabres CLASSCHONDRICHTHYES; jawed fish with paired fins, paired nostrils, scales, two-chambered hearts, and skeletons made of cartilage rather than bone. SUBCLASSELASMOBRANCHII; is the subclass of cartilaginous fish that includes skates, rays (batoidea), and sharks (selachii). ORDERSQUATINIFORMES FAMILY- SQUATINIDAE GENUS- SQUATINA
BY: DYLAN PEARCE
Photo from Flickr user: greenacre8
Angel Shark Information The Angel Shark unlike its relatives has a flat body with broad pectoral fins, looking closer to a ray or skate. Angel sharks are ovoviviparous, with litters known up to 13 pups. Births pimariliy occur between march and June. Being Ovoviviparous mean that the eggs hatch inside the mother and there is no placenta to sustain the young. The young survive soley on a nutrient rich yolk which when that runs out birth is near. Males tend to reach sexual maturity earlier than females at the age of 8 years, while females reach
sexual maturity around the age temperate and tropical of 13 years. enviorments staying in shallow waters from 10 to 328 feet Angel Sharks are primarily deep. These bottom dewellers Carnivores that feed off boney hide in mud and sand till prey fish, squids, and octopuses. comes to them, they are Theyʼre preyed upon only by known to stay up to 3 weeks in larger sharks usually the Great one spot waiting for a meal. White. Due to their exotic appereance The angel shark is related to they were heavily poached but all other sharks but the idea of when facts and numbers were being related to the ray is still being uncovered hope began under studies with background for these slow-reproducing checks. chondrichthyes. Angel Sharks are found primarily of the coast of California but range along the Pacifc coast of North and South America, in Marine
The Angel Shark is protected under the Wildlife and Countyside Act. It was placed there in April 2008 by the UK Government.
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