In the depths of the ocean found eerie black "ninja shark" Bashny.Net

Off the coast of Central America, we found a new type of shark. Hiding from a man for so long helped them deep dark color and lifestyle. The site tells podrobnosti.Ob opening described in the journal Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation. Students under the guidance of Professor Douglas California Academy of Sciences Long studied samples of ocean fauna in the lab Pacific Shark Research Center. The right to name a new species of sharks received one of the students. Thus, the list of known species of these fish has expanded Etmopterus benchleyi: the first word relates it to the kind of "black spiny sharks" and the second pays tribute to Peter Benchley - author of the famous novel "Jaws" of the man-eating sharks.



Fish has a sleek black body length of 50 cm, which are special bodies containing microscopic crystals of uric acid and provide glow in the dark (photophores). Etmopterus benchleyi lives at depths of 836 to 1443 meters and is a secretive lifestyle. For foraging shark rises closer to the sea surface, where it merges with diffused light, preys on shrimp and other ocean creatures. Light disguise while allowing it to remain invisible to the larger predators. For such students superpowers wanted to call his discovery "isistius Ninja", but the name remains unofficial.

However, in the genus Etmopterus benchleyi black spiny sharks (or etmopterusov) includes 40 species. They live in all oceans except the Arctic. "Ninja" lives in the eastern Pacific Ocean, from Nicaragua to Panama and Costa Rica. Currently it is the only representative etmopterusov, living in the waters of the Pacific coast of Central America. Scientists, however, reminded that about 20% of all known shark was discovered over the last 10 years.



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