Pelagic largemouth shark

 









Pelagic largemouth shark — a real contender for the shooting of a horror movie. Anyone who has seen this monster with an incredibly big mouth, will remember this meeting forever.

But despite his rather terrible appearance, pelagic largemouth shark man is not terrible, as its diet consists of small shrimp and plankton, like the giant whale shark. Yes and to meet her in the sea for a human being is a rare case: its main habitat is deep places of the ocean, which reach as high as 150-meter depths, and rises shark pyatnadcatiletnie in the upper layers and only rarely at night.

The very first meeting of a man with a big mouth shark occurred in 1976, when the U.S. ship conducted a study of the seabed of the Pacific ocean around the Hawaiian Islands. At a depth of more than 4600 meters were lowered, and then lifted on Board the vessel two special anchor chute, which still kept the ship on the waves of the ocean. In one of the accouterments anchors were confused and raised an unknown is still a shark. The length of the shark was 4.46 meters, and the size of the mouth then shocked all present. It was then she was given the name pelagic largemouth shark (lat. Megachasma pelagios). Pelagic — because its main habitat is the area "mesopelagic" (that is, the depth of the ocean 150-500 meters), and largemouth why — look at these photos and you all will become clear.

Over the next forty years largemouth shark in the hands of the man were no more than three dozen times, as evidenced by the photos, and then mostly small specimens from 1.5 to 3 meters in length.





Only in 2004 in the hands of scientists got a dead female largemouth shark, which washed up on the shore of Japan the storm. Its length made up of 5.63 meters, and according to scientists, this does not limit the growth of the shark, so maybe somewhere on the great depths of the ocean, there are seven representatives of these sharks. But while this is only guesswork, accurate and established facts is that pelagic largemouth shark distributed throughout the world where warm water. A large crowd of males was not time was in the autumn around the coast of California. This fact gives scientists to conclude that it is here at this time of year and the mating occurs. Bolshereche are asciiportal, that is, the female carries the young in her womb and are born small calves. published







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