What Is Greenland Shark

Squalus squatina (non Linnaeus, 1758)
Squalus carcharis (Gunnerus, 1776)
Somniosus brevipinna (Lesueur, 1818)
Squalus borealis (Scoresby, 1820)
Squalus norvegianus (Blainville, 1825)
Scymnus gunneri (Thienemann, 1828)
Scymnus glacialis (Faber, 1829)
Scymnus micropterus (Valenciennes, 1832)
Leiodon echinatum (Wood, 1846)
Somniosus antarcticus (Whitley, 1939)

The Greenland shark, Somniosus microcephalus, also known as the sleeper shark, gurry shark, ground shark, grey shark, or by the Inuit Eqalussuaq, is a large shark native to the waters of the North Atlantic Ocean around Greenland and Iceland. These sharks live further north than any other shark species. They are closely related to the Pacific sleeper shark. It rivals the Pacific sleeper shark (possibly up to 7 meters or 23 feet long) as the largest species in the Somniosidae family.

Greenland sharks are deep-water sharks, living at depths up to 2,000 m (6,600 ft), but information has shown that they do inhabit shallower water as they have been filmed in depths as shallow as 8 m (24 ft) in the St Lawrence River in North America. Their stomachs have contained the remains of fish, and mammals such as seals, This species has been well documented as a scavenger, explaining many of the above records of stomach contents.

This shark frequently is host to a parasitic copepod, Ommatokoita elongata, that attaches itself to the cornea of the eye and feeds on the shark’s corneal tissue; the resulting scar tissue leads to partial blindness of the shark.

In the 2000s, the Greenland shark has been regularly observed in the St.
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