{"id":4079,"date":"2015-04-22T19:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T00:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4079"},"modified":"2015-04-29T11:02:48","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T16:02:48","slug":"rare-pocket-shark-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/rare-pocket-shark-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Pocket Shark found"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4080\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pocketshark00.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4080\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4080\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pocketshark00-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration of a pocket shark. The red arrow points to the shark's pocket. (Photo Credit: NOAA Fisheries)\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pocketshark00-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pocketshark00.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration of a pocket shark. The red arrow points to the shark&#8217;s pocket. (Photo Credit: NOAA Fisheries)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A small and rare species of shark has been observed for the second time only in history. Only 5 and a half inches long, it\u2019s called \u201cpocket\u201d because of a distinctive \u2018pocket\u2019 gland above the pectoral fin.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have found the rare specimen in the frozen remain of midwater trawl survey performed in the northern Gulf of Mexico back in 2010. The only other known specimen was found off Peru, 36 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapress.com\/zootaxa\/2015\/f\/zt03948p600.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Zootaxa\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>April 22<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Mark A. Grace, NOAA\/NMFS\/SEFSC\/Mississippi Laboratories, Mississippi, USA<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small and rare species of shark has been observed for the second time only in history. Only 5 and a half inches long, it\u2019s called \u201cpocket\u201d because of a distinctive \u2018pocket\u2019 gland above the pectoral fin. Researchers have found the rare specimen in the frozen remain of midwater trawl survey performed in the northern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[170,2424],"class_list":["post-4079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-biodiversity","tag-shark"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pocketshark00.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-13N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4082,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4079\/revisions\/4082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}