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In 1977, Michael Wagner, a fish processor in Santa Barbara, California, US, in cooperation with local commercial fishermen, developed the market for angel sharks. [11] The annual take of angel shark in 1977 was an estimated 147 kg. [11] By 1985, the annual take of angel shark on the central California coast had increased to more than 454 tonnes ...
The word squatina is the name for skate in Latin; it was made the genus name for all angel sharks by the French zoologist André Duméril in 1806. [3] Other common names used for this species include angel, angel fiddle fish, angel puffy fish, angel ray, angelfish, escat jueu, fiddle fish, monk, and monkfish. [4]
This species resembles other angel sharks in appearance, with a flattened body and greatly enlarged pectoral and pelvic fins. Characteristic features of this shark include a pair of cone-shaped barbels on its snout, angular pectoral fins, and a brown or gray dorsal coloration with many small dark markings. It attains a maximum length of 1.5 m ...
The sawback angelshark (Squatina aculeata) is an angelshark of the family Squatinidae [2] It is one of rarest species of sharks known to date, and one of the three species of angelsharks that inhabits the Mediterranean. The Sawback angelshark lives in sandy and muddy bottoms of the ocean at depths of 30–500m.
This species differs from other Southwestern Atlantic angel sharks in terms of several characteristics comparison, such as dorsal coloration, vertebral counts, dermal denticles, and pectoral fin feature. [2] The reproduction system is viviparous. [1] [2] The maximum length for the females is 132 cm (52 in) and the males is around 120 cm (47 in ...
Squatina leae, commonly known as Lea's angel shark, [1] is a species of deep-water angelshark restricted to the Saya de Malha Bank, [2] [3] that may possibly inhabit waters around the Indian Ocean. The species was described with young specimens captured in deep waters in the region. [ 3 ]
Color: Are a greyish or a reddish-brown, there are many light and dark spots, which are often large granular-centered ocelli in young fish. Obtains larger symmetrical dark bands or saddles, blotches on a broad, angular, high pectoral fins.
Squatina mapama (also known as the small-crested angelshark) is a species of angelshark found in the Caribbean. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was described by Douglas J. Long, David A. Ebert, Jose Tavera, Arturo Acero Pizarro , and David Ross Robertson in December 2021.