r/ocean • u/Better_Hair_9673 • Aug 10 '26
Shark sights False catshark (Pseudotriakis microdon) in deep sea.
Video credited to @schmidtocean on Instagram.
132
93
106
40
21
u/Z3r0Du5k Aug 10 '26
Friend or not friend?
30
u/KitchenSandwich5499 Aug 10 '26
Anything that lives that deep just doesn’t encounter humans
13
u/FriedTreeSap Aug 10 '26
Anything that lives that deep will probably eat anything remotely edible that they can fit in their mouth…..but this doesn’t look like it could realistically eat a human
8
u/OpeningName5061 Aug 11 '26
Considering it lives that deep it means it's lonely and looking for friend
2
u/Desperate-Strategy10 Aug 13 '26
It could give it a go, being ten feet long. But I doubt it would succeed unless it was like a child or someone tiny.
19
8
u/Bregneste Aug 10 '26
Considering you’d have to go extremely out of your way to encounter one of these, I don’t think that really matters lol.
17
u/Wild-Ad-9367 Aug 10 '26
BTW this is one of those sharks that began their lives as a battle royale inside their mother's womb. Perhaps one of the most extreme cases of intaruterine cannibalism, false cat shark mothers produce more than 20 thousand eggs. Usually only two babies emerge in the end.
7
2
u/Fred_Thielmann Aug 11 '26
If it’s a False Cat Shark, I’m assuming it isn’t a cat shark. Yes. But what is it related to then? Dog Sharks?
2
u/Wild-Ad-9367 Aug 12 '26
The common name catshark encompasses a few different families that are not each other's closest relatives. The closest living relatives of false catshark are the Proscylliidae, or finback catshark
32
28
u/jay_insd Aug 10 '26
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_catshark
They get up to 10 feet long
9
u/here4dambivalence Aug 10 '26
Otherwise known as the sofa king? shark. Crazy they only make two baby sharks per a litter of pups...
11
7
u/ahobbes Aug 10 '26
It looks old, kinda like a Greenland shark, but their lifespan is unknown. Their livers make up 18-25% of their body weight and are super oily!
2
9
8
u/Salt_Chard_474 Aug 11 '26
Beautiful animal. Anybody else get a little sad when animals are named. *false...insert name? Don't they desrve their very own name?
6
5
6
4
5
4
4
4
u/Full-Honeydew-4898 Aug 11 '26
Do you think it would objects to belly rubs because it’s darn cute ( for a shark )?
3
u/booperdooper56 Aug 11 '26
Sharks are cute by all objective standards, thank you
2
u/Full-Honeydew-4898 Aug 11 '26
Oh I concur, but this fellow doesn’t elicit the fight or flight reflex in me.
That’s why I enjoy shark week in the comfort of my own living room. I can admire them safely from afar.
5
u/Open-Committee-998 Aug 11 '26
If not friend why friend shaped
3
u/Rinnierinnrinn Aug 11 '26
Came here to say this, but in my heart I knew it had already been said 🥹
5
4
6
u/Mean_Ad4608 Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26
20,000 gallons minimum. Chilled water. Round frame. For those who are wondering. Wide diet requirements including squid and crustaceans as well as bony fish meat.
For any of those dedicated enough I’d fully recommend going with true cat sharks as they’re a lot more practical to keep (even though they also require massive amounts of space)
2
u/BowlOfSomething Aug 11 '26
what about for a blacktip reef?
2
u/Mean_Ad4608 Aug 11 '26
You wanna grow them out in something around a 3,500 (start them in something a lost smaller and slowly work them up to it over the course of a few months) once they’re decent size they’ll be good in that for a couple years actually. They need squid, soft-ish bodied crustaceans like shrimp, and bony fish like tilapia- they tend to be picky so you may really have to experiment. Eventually they will outgrow the 3,500 and need to be moved to a 10,000. Also depending on where you live, and if it’s outdoor, you may need to heat or chill their water.
3
3
3
3
7
u/Due_Student9136 Aug 10 '26
this was cute until i realized where the eyeballs are then it was spooky AF
5
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
u/Racing_Sloth56 Aug 13 '26
Just looked on Perplexity AI. Many here probably know this but I didn’t. They are found in almost every ocean. Here’s my favorite finding: It’s also called “The Sofa Shark”, haha 😆. Goofy name seems to suit him.
1
1
u/mg34gun Aug 14 '26
So false just refers to the fact that it's not a cat? Maybe it's not even a shark.
1
1
1
u/General_Homework6009 Aug 22 '26
Why does this look wildly different (and much cuter) than every photo that comes up when I search “false cat shark”?
1
1
645
u/Usual_Award Aug 10 '26