Scientific Name:
Squalus acanthias

Family Name:
Squalidae

Size:
5.9 feet

Color:
brown to gray, usually with white spots, and the ventrum is white or cream colored

Life Span:
25 - 100 years

Diet:
schooling and non-schooling bonyfishes (including sardines, menhaden, herring, smelt, hake, cod, ling, midshipmen, blennies, sand lances, porgies, croakers, sculpins and flatfishes), fish eggs, squids, octopuses, crabs, krill, worms, snails, sea cucumbers, salps, comb jellies and jellyfishes. It also feed on chimeras (also known as ratfish).