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What is a Squatina?

By

: Maria Davis

Table of Contents
What does the angle shark look
like
What is the SCENTIFIC name
What does the angle shark eat
Where is the location angle
shark
What are the enemies of the
angle shark
FUN FACTS about the angle
shark
What is a another special name
for the angle shark!
Cameo
Protect

How does the angel shark


move
How long is the angel shark
Adaptions

Glossary
Species
Web sites
Classifiction

What does a angle shark look


like?
A angle shark looks like a very flat ray-like shark with broad flat
bodies, and wings like pectoral fins that swim the way sharks
do. The reason why they are called the angle shark is because
they have a angle like wings.

What is the scientific name for the Squatina?


Squatina means Angel shark.
The angel shark (Squatina)-means bottom dwelling ray-like
shark, with broad flat bodies and wings like pectoral fins that fin
that swim the way sharks do.

Whats for dinner-Diet!


Did you know that a angle shark is a carnivore, and mostly eats various types of
fish like, crustaceans , mollusks, and squid.
The angle shark is sadly on the bottom of the food chain

Where is the angle sharks location

The

angle shark can live ether in the ocean.

But

they live and they eat on the bottom of the ocean.

Because

they are bottom d-welling they stay on the


bottom of the ocean.

What are the enemies of the angel shark?


Did you know that the angel sharks only enemies are, dum,
dum , dum-PEOPLE and GREAT WHITE SHARKS . The other
animals of the sea are of no concern to the angel shark.

Fun Facts
An angel shark can live up to 30 years in the wild
Females can lay up to 8 to 13 eggs at a time
The sharks mate in angel sharks mate in spring
Did you know that a angel shark is a type of marine fish
Did you know that a angel shark can change its skin color to blend in
to the bottom of the ocean

A another special name for the angle


shark and the (Squatina) is!

Is the monkfish -because


the shape of its head
resembles the hood on a
monks cloak.

Cameo
With out cameo , a angel shark has no way to hide from there enemies
, so look at these pictures and try to take the cameo off it. Its hard
isnt it.
Can you spot the angel shark?

How does the angel shark protect itself?


You know how was just talking about how cameo is soooooooo
ooooooooooooooo Im important to the angel shark than we
Though ,well it is the same thing the angel shark needs cameo to
protect itself ! WHAT!

How does the angle shark move


Unlike other sharks ,the angel
shark has
pecoral fins-(means not totally
attached
to the water flowing though the
gills . On a
Totally related note , did you
know that angel
shark (Squatina) can go up to 46
MPH in the water?

What is a Squatina?
A squatina is a angle shark (Squatina) is the scientific name for the
angle shark.The angle sharks name means bottom-delling.

Life cycle and reproduction


The series of changes in the life of an organism ,including
Reproduction.

Behavior
The angel shark is pretty much harmless ,unless if under
(Attack).The angel shark cool social behaviors and interesting
Facts to dig up. The angel shark is docile

Adaptations

The angels shark has a adapted to look like the


sand and rock. Its fins help it to swim and its
gills help it to breathe. A flat body helps sit still
unseen when buried underground. It isnt a very
fast swimmer, so instead waits for its prey to
come and ambushes it.

Glossery
Broad-Have an ample disance
From side to side .Or covering
a large number and wide scope
Of subject or area.

Pectoral-Relating to the cest.

Species
Did you know that there are 23 species lelf in the world in the
World today.
The angel sharks survival because of good cameo skills

Reference
I got my Information from these sites!
Safi, Bing, Org, Gov ,A lot of .Coms, Kids Rex , Edu ,fire fox

The classification of the angle shark!

Kingdom-Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Phyium -Vertebrata
Class-Chondrichthyes
Order-Squatinformes
Genus-squatinitormes

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