darkie charlie
Dalatias licha
Category: Sharks & Rays
IUCN Conservation Status: VU - Vulnerable - facing a high risk of extinction in the wild
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Elasmobranchii
- Order
- Squaliformes
- Family
- Dalatiidae
- Genus
- Dalatias
Where to Find
Found in 15 diving areas across 12 countries and 4 regions.
- Sydney & New South Wales, Australia - 56 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Bay of Islands, New Zealand - 9 records
- East Coast, South Korea - 1 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 1 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 5 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 2 records
- Corsica, France - 3 records
- South Coast, Ireland - 1 records
- West Coast, Ireland - 1 records
- Portofino & Liguria, Italy - 2 records
- Al Hoceima, Morocco - 38 records
- Azores, Portugal - 41 records
- Balearic Islands, Spain - 13 records