LOCATION Northeast Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.The small spotted catshark is active mostly at night and spends the day resting motionless under craggy rocks or elsewhere on the sea floor.
It is one of the most abundant sharks in European waters and eats whatever its jaws can tackle-including fish, crabs, and squid. Its sensitive eyes help it prowl the seas of Europe, where it snaps at small animals that live close to the sandy and muddy bottoms of coastal waters. “Young catsharks use their rough skin to tear food apart” 152ĬAT-EYED NIGHT PROWLER SMALL SPOTTED CATSHARK Hunting in the dark is no problem for this little shark. EGGS PER B ROOD cm 1 2 3 600 1 in/2.4 cm (average) 151 in 1⁄4 1⁄2 3⁄4 kicking with her strong back legs. targets, but sometimes She propels her encased brood they attack tiny jellyfish BARREL LENGTH around the ocean waters by and similar animals. a firm grip on the dead salp Salps are favorite 10–60 min to eat insides of prey in which she has laid her eggs. DIET Salps (floating jellylike animals) and other soft-bodied animal plankton STATS AND FACTS PUSHING ALONG Barrel shrimp lay TIME TAKEN 1 their eggs in prey soft 5 min to enter prey A mother barrel shrimp keeps enough to scrape out.Then she lays her eggs inside this empty barrel and pushes it around wherever she goes until they hatch. She chomps away at its innards until the only thing left is its barrel-shaped skin. First she catches a plump little jelly called a salp. But the mother barrel shrimp turns her prey into a stroller for her brood. Most animal mothers in the open ocean scatter their eggs and leave it to chance whether their babies survive. MOBILE NURSERY BARREL SHRIMP Here is a shrimp with a taste for flesh and a very gruesome family life. “One drop of LIFE STORIES sea snake venom is enough to kill three humans” 149
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