Squatina californica

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lexID:: 7480

Scientific:: Squatina californica
German:: Pazifischer Engelhai
English:: Pacific angelshark

Category:: Requins
Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Elasmobranchii (Class) > Squatiniformes (Order) > Squatinidae (Family) > Squatina (Genus) > californica (Species)
Initial determination:: Ayres, 1859

Occurrence:: West Coast USA, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Alaska, Amérique du Sud, Bolivie, Canada, Chile, Equador, golfe de Californie, Mexique (Nord-est du Pacifique), Nicaragua , Pacifique Est, Panama, Peru, USA
Size:: bis zu 150cm
Temperature:: 22°C - 28°C
Food:: Nekton, Predatory, Zoobenthos, crabes, crevettes, gros poissons, homard, langoustes, poissons (petits poissons), seiche, tourteaux
Difficulty:: Pas pour l'aquarium!
Offspring:: None

Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Squatina aculeata
Squatina africana
Squatina albipunctata
Squatina argentina
Squatina armata
Squatina australis
Squatina caillieti
Squatina californica
Pazifischer Engelhai
Squatina dumeril
Squatina formosa
Squatina guggenheim
Squatina heteroptera
Squatina japonica
Squatina legnota
Squatina mexicana
Squatina nebulosa
Squatina occulta
Squatina oculata
Squatina pseudocellata
Squatina punctata
Squatina squatina
Engelhai
Squatina tergocellata
Squatina tergocellatoides

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2014-08-28 20:10:26
Last edit:: 2014-08-28 20:10:26

Husbandry

Ayres, 1859

The Pacific angelshark is a sluggish and inactive skark, that often is burried in sand or mud.

Divers and snorkelers should be very careful when approcing, the shark can whip up its head and snap very quickly when touched, provoked, harassed, or even speared, so the fish can cause very painful lacerations!

Best left the shark in the wild!

Synonym:
Rhina philippi Garman, 1913

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Elasmobranchii (Class) > Neoselachii (Subclass) > Selachii (Infraclass) > Squalomorphi (Superorder) > Squatiniformes (Order) > Squatinidae (Family) > Squatina (Genus)

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