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.
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The minute range of the dwarf lantern shark. |
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A dwarf lantern shark spotted in the Twilight zone by a very lucky diver. |
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