Angel sharks
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| Duméril, 1806 |
Those Angel sharks (Squatina) that forms the only kind the angel sharks (Squatinidae) which wiederrum the only family within that the angel sharks (Squatiniformes). The kind consists of approximately eight-toe admitted kinds. They live world-wide on the continental shelf in up to 1300 m depth of water. By the strongly flattened trunk and the large angel sharks see that more similarly than the sharks, it differs however by the fact from these that their brustflossen are clearly set off from the trunk, while they change with the skates beginningless into the body. Like those (Squaliformes) and those (Pristiophoriformes) they do not possess Analflossen. A schwanzflosse has all kinds, with which the lower part is clearly larger than the upper.
Angel sharks usually live at ground level, where they design themselves frequently for the reason or into the sand to entrench and for their booty wait, Weichtiern, small fish and exists.
The individual kinds of the angel sharks do not become very largely, only that Japanese angel shark (Squatina japonica) approximately two meters can become long. Most kinds reach a length from one to one and a half meters, approximately over resident Squatina of tergocellatoides become only somewhat more than sixty centimeters long. All angel sharks are ovovivipar, i.e. that the eggs in the dam are expenditure-bred, before the young animals are living born. With many kinds growth and raterate rate are relatively small, so that by losses as Beifang some kinds like the angel shark (Squatina squatina) apply meanwhile out endangered.
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