Southern sleeper shark: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Southern sleeper shark Somniosus antarcticus Least concern

Where the southern sleeper shark lives, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Recorded in (GBIF)Representative wild record

Pin and shaded countries are approximate. The pin is a representative wild sighting (a central record among 5 open-licence GBIF records), not an official range. Method · Records on GBIF · See sharks on the world map

Southern sleeper shark: Somniosus antarcticus — Photo: CSIRO National Fish Collection, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Scientific name	Somniosus antarcticus
Group	Sharks
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Class	Cartilaginous fish
Order	Squaliformes
Family	Somniosidae

Is the southern sleeper shark endangered?

The southern sleeper shark’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the southern sleeper shark?

The southern sleeper shark (Somniosus antarcticus) is a cartilaginous fish in the order Squaliformes and the family Somniosidae, genus Somniosus. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the southern sleeper shark

The southern sleeper shark, or Whitley's sleeper shark (Somniosus antarcticus), is a deepwater benthopelagic sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae found in the southern and subantarctic extremes of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans, and some northern reaches of the Antarctic oceans. It has been recorded near the southernmost areas of South America (such as Tierra del Fuego and the Strait of Magellan), near South Africa, southern Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand, as well as more remote locations in the south-central Indian Ocean.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Southern sleeper shark (revision 1379862066), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q4667506 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).