Broadnose Sevengill shark

About the Broadnose Sevengill Shark:

• It is a large seven-gilled with a wide head and short, blunt snout shark.
• It is related to sharks that lived in the Jurassic Period about 300 million years ago.
• They prefer tropical, temperate, shallow waters
• Distribution:
  • It is found in all oceans except the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea.
  • In the eastern Pacific Ocean, they are found from southeastern Alaska to southern Baja California, Mexico and from Colombia to Chile.
• Biology and Behaviour
  • They can grow to a maximum length of 2.9 m. Females grow longer than their male counterparts.
  • They feed on anything, such as other sharks, rays, chimaeras, bony fish, hagfish, dolphins and porpoise meat, seals, shark egg cases and sea snails.
• Conservation status
• IUCN: Vulnerable