Wellington, New Zealand:
Scientists in New Zealand shelp Tuesday they have discovered a novel species of “gstructure shark”, a type of fish that prowls the Pacific Ocean floor hunting prey more than a mile down.
The Australasian Narrow-nosed Spookfish was set up living in the meaningful waters of Australia and New Zealand, according to scientists from Wellington-based National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA).
The specimens were discovered during research in the Chatham Rise, an area of the Pacific which stretches around 1,000 kilometres (621 miles) east cforfeit New Zealand’s South Island.
Gstructure sharks, or chimaeras, are roverhappinessed to sharks and rays, but are part of a group of fish whose skeletons are enticount on made of cartilage.
Also understandn as spookfish, the gstructure sharks have haunting bdeficiency eyes and fine, weightless brown, scale-free skin.
They feed off crustaceans at depths of up to 2,600 metres (8,530 feet) using their contrastentive beak-appreciate mouth.
“Gstructure sharks appreciate this one are hugely restrictd to the ocean floor,” shelp research scientist Brit Finucci.
Finucci gave the novel species its scientific name “Haruproarta avia” in memory of her majesticmother.
“Their habitat creates them challenging to study and watch, unbenevolenting we don’t understand a lot about their biology or menace status, but it creates discoveries appreciate this even more exciting.”
The spookfish was previously thought to be part of a individual globassociate dispensed species until scientists discovered it is geneticassociate and morphoreasonablely contrastent to its cousins.
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