An Australian fisherman caught a deep sea shark with a white mouth, pointed nose and bulging eyes.
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Trapman Bermagui caught the weird sea creature in Sydney from 2,133 feet underwater.
The fisherman said it is a rough skin shark.
“It’s a rough skin shark, also known as a species of endeavour dog shark,” he told a foreign news agency. “These sharks are common in depths greater than 600 meters. We catch them in the wintertime usually.”
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Associate Director of research at the Florida State University Coastal and Marine Laboratory Dean Grubbs said the fish has been caught in Gulf of Mexico and Bahamas.
“In my deep-sea research, we have caught quite a few of them in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Bahamas. Ours have come from depths of 740 to 1160 meters (~2,400 to 3,800 feet), so a bit deeper than this report. They are in the family Somniosidae, the Sleeper Sharks, the same family of the Greenland Shark, but obviously a much smaller species,” he said.
However, Christopher Lowe – the Professor and Director of the California State University Long Beach Shark Lab, denied it was a rough skin shark.
” Looks to me like a deepwater kitefin shark, which are known in the waters off Australia. It looks like Dalatias lata to me; however, we discover new species of deepwater shark all the time and many look very similar to each other,” he said.
