Lukas VFN 🇪🇺#Scientists find banded sand #catsharks hiding inside sea sponges https://phys.org/news/2023-09-scientists-banded-sand-catsharks-sea.html
#Sharks checking in to the #sponge hotel: first internal use of #sponges of the genus #Agelas and family #Irciniidae by banded sand catsharks #Atelomycterus fasciatus. By Helen O'Neill et al. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jfb.15554
"Some bony #fish use sponges as #microhabitats. However, this behavior had never been seen before in sharks or other #elasmobranchs, the group including sharks, #rays, #skates, #sawfish"
Scientists find banded sand catsharks hiding inside sea sponges
When scientists on board the research vessel (RV) Investigator pulled a large sponge from the ocean in 2017, they noticed a tail fin poking out. They expected to find an eel had wriggled into the sponge. Instead, they discovered 30 catsharks hiding inside.
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