The Species Black List
Somniosus longus
frog shark
The frog shark (Somniosus longus) is a very rare deepwater species known from fewer than a dozen specimens collected patchily from across the Pacific Ocean, though mainly in the region of Japan.
- Status
- Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List
- Restriction tier
- 1, no restriction stated
- Class
- Chondrichthyes
- Realm
- Oceanic
- Locality
- Pacific Ocean
- As IUCN records it
- Somniosus longus (Tanaka, 1912)