Pacific Sleeper Shark Bibliography
Anderson, M. Eric, Gregor M. Cailliet, and Brooke S. Antrim. 1979. Notes on Some Uncommon Deep-Sea Fishes from the Monterey Bay Area, California. Calif. Fish and Game, 65(4): 256-264.
Bakes, Michael J., and Peter D. Nichols. 1995. Lipid, Fatty Acis and Squalene Composition of Liver Oil From Six Species of Deep-Sea Sharks Collected in Southern Australian Waters. Comp. Biochem. Physiol.B, 110(1): 267-275.
Benz, George W., Zoe Lucas, and Lloyd F. Lowry. 1998. New Host and Ocean records for the Copepod Ommatokoita elongata (Siphonostomatoida: Lernaeopodidae), a Parasite of the Eyes of Sleeper Sharks. J. Parasitol., 84(6): 1271-1274.
Bright, Donald B. 1959. The Occurrence and Food of the Sleeper Shark, Somniosus pacificus, in a Central Alaska Bay. Copeia, 1959(1): 76-77.
Clark, E., and E. Kristof. 1990. Deep Sea Elasmobranchs Observed From Submersibles in Grand Cayman, Bermuda, and Bahamas. NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS 90: 275-290.
Clark, Eugenie, and Emory Kristof. 1991. How Deep Do Sharks Go? Reflections on Deep Sea Sharks. Bull. Amer. Litt. Soc, 19(4)/20(1): 79-84.
Crovetto, Angel, Julio Lamilla, and Germán Pequeño. 1992. Lissodelphis peronii, Lacépède 1804 (Delphinidae, Cetacea) Within the Stomach Contents of a Sleeping Shark, Somniosus cf pacificus, Bigelow and Schroeder 1944, in Chilean Waters. Mar. Mam. Sci., 8(3): 312-314.
Dayton, P.K., and R.R. Hessler. 1972. Role of Biological Disturbance in Maintaining Diversity in the Deep Sea. Deep-Sea Res. Oceanogr. Abst., 19: 199-208.
de Asterloa, Juan M. Díaz, Daniel E. Figueroa, Luis Lucífora, Roberto C. Meni, Bruno L. Prenski, and Gustavo Chiaramonte. 1999. New Records of the Pacific Sleeper Shark, Somniosus pacificus (Chondrichthyes: Squalidae), from the Southwest Atlantic. Ichthyol. Res., 46(3): 303-308.
Doubilet, David, and Emory Kristof. 1990. Saruga Bay: in the Shadow of Mount Fuji. Natl. Geo., 178(4) [October 1990]: 2-39.
Dybas, Cheryl Lyn. 1999. Undertakers of the Deep. Nat. Hist., 108(9) [November 1999]: 40-47. [Illustrated with splendidly evocative paintings by Michael Rothman.]
Ebert, David A., Leonard J.V.. Compagno, anf Lisa J. Natanson. 1987. Biological Notes on the Pacific Sleeper Shark, Somniosus pacificus (Chondrichthyes: Squalidae). Calif. Fish and Game, 73(2): 117-123.
Francis, Malcolm P., John D. Stevens, and Peter R. Last. 1988. New Records of Somniosus (Elasmobranchii: Squalidae) from Australasia, with Comments on the Taxonomy of the Genus. N.Z. J. Mar. Freshw. Res., 22: 401-409.
Gotshall, Daniel W., and Tom Jow. 1965. Sleeper Sharks (Somniosus pacificus) off Trinidad, California, with Life History Notes. Calif. Fish and Game, 51(4): 294-298.
Gushchin, A.V., V.V. Sukhovershin, I.I. Konovalenko, and V.S. Sukhorukova. 1987. On the Capture of the Polar Shark Genus Somniosus (Squalidae) in the Southern Hemisphere. J. Ichthyol., 27(1): 115-117.
Issacs, John D., and Richard A. Schwartzlose. 1975. Active Animals of the Deep-Sea Floor. Sci. Amer., 233(4) [October 1975]: 85-91.
Kelly, Robert H., and Paul H. Yancey. 1999. High Content of Trimethylamine Oxide Correlating with Depth in Deep-Sea Teleost Fishes, Skates, and Decapod Crustaceans. Biol. Bull., 196: 18-25.
Orlov, A.M. 1999. Capture of an Especially Large Sleeper Shark Somniosus pacificus (Squalidae) with Some Notes on Its Ecology in Northwestern Pacific. J. Ichthyol., 39(7): 548-553.
Orlov, Alexi M., and Sergei I. Moiseev. 1998. New data on the Biology of the Pacific Sleeper Shark, Somniosus pacificus (Squalidae) in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. Pp 177-186 In Don MacKinlay, Karin Howard, and Joseph Cech, Jr. (eds.) Fish Performance Studies: Symposium Proceedings. International Congress on the Biology of Fish, Towson University, Baltimore.
Phillips, J.B. 1953. Sleeper Shark, Somniosus pacificus, Caught off Fort Bragg, California. Calif. Fish and Game, 39(1): 147-149.
Tanaka, Sho, Kazunari Yano, and Tadayoshhi Ichihara. 1982. Notes on a Pacific Sleeper Shark, Somniosus pacificus, from Saruga Bay, Japan. J. Fac. Mar. Sci. Technol. Tokai Uni., 15: 345-358.
Yang, Mei-Sun, and Benjamin N. Page. 1999. Diet of Pacific Sleeper Shark, Somniosus pacificus, in the Gulf of Alaska. Fish. Bull., 97: 406-409.
