Wether this shark is endangered or of least concern, no one knows. Their range is small - nearly as small as they are! - and fisheries in the areas where they live have repoted netting them as bycatch. They have been classed as data deficient by SHARKDEFENSE.
These deep-sea-nipprs rise to the Sunlight Zone by night to hunt in schools of several hundred specimens, catching solitary fish and sometimes small sharks, like dogfish.
The minute range of the dwarf lantern shark. |
A dwarf lantern shark spotted in the Twilight zone by a very lucky diver. |
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