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    The Somniosidae are a family of sharks in the order Squaliformes, commonly known as sleeper sharks. The common name "sleeper shark" comes from their slow...
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    a widely distributed genus of deepwater dogfish sharks in the family Somniosidae. Several members of the genus are believed to attain lengths up to 7 m...
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    Velvet dogfish (category Somniosidae)
    only member of the genus Zameus, is a small sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae, found around the world between latitudes 64°N and 48°S, from the surface...
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    adapt to the deep sea. The common ancestor of Dalatiidae, Etmopteridae, Somniosidae, and Oxynotidae possessed a luminous organ and used bioluminescence for...
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  • Scymnodon is a genus of squaliform sharks in the family Somniosidae. There are currently four recognized species in this genus: Scymnodon ichiharai Ka...
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    antarcticus), is a deepwater benthopelagic sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae found in the southern and subantarctic extremes of the Atlantic, Indian...
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  • (Somniosidae), a family of slow-swimming sharks Portuguese dogfish (Centroscymnus coelolepis), a species of sleeper sharks in the family Somniosidae Roughskin...
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    known as the gurry shark or grey shark, is a large shark of the family Somniosidae ("sleeper sharks"), closely related to the Pacific and southern sleeper...
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  • in deep water in the Pacific Ocean. It is in the sleeper shark family Somniosidae with the Greenland shark. The frog shark is known to grow to a maximum...
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    (Scymnodon ichiharai) is a harmless deepwater sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae, found in the northwest Pacific from Suruga Bay and adjacent waters of...
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