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<\/a>Spotted ratfish (Hydrolagus colliei)<\/p><\/div>\n
Common Name: Spotted Ratfish, White-spotted Ratfish<\/p>\n
Scientific Name: Hydrolagus colliei<\/em><\/p>\n Distribution: It is native to Northeastern Pacific Ocean and found at a depth of 3000ft.<\/p>\n Description: Habit: Importance: Spotted Ratfish Common Name: Spotted Ratfish, White-spotted Ratfish Scientific Name: Hydrolagus colliei<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,21],"tags":[321,323,322,320],"yst_prominent_words":[2049,2051,2052,2048,2046,2053,1472,2013,2050,2047,2045],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animals","category-fishes","tag-chimaera","tag-hydrolagus","tag-oviparous","tag-spotted-ratfish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourgreen.org\/allpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe spotted Ratfish is a species of Chimaera. It is related to sharks but harmless.The female spotted ratfish measures 97cm, much bigger than male. It has a rabbit-like face with a broad, flat, duckbill shaped snout containing incisor shaped teeth. It also has large eyes and a prominent venomous spine at the leading edge of\u00a0 dorsal fin. Triangular pectoral fins are well developed and have a transparent appearance. Fins are grey or dark in colour. The fish has smooth scales on a\u00a0 silvery bronze-coloured body adorned with golden and sometimes blue or green spots. The tail is long and looks like a rat. Overall, it has a shape like an airplane.<\/p>\n
\nDiet consists of a wide range of bottom dwelling invertebrates and fishes. Ratfish is known to be cannibalistic, feeding on both free-swimming individuals and on its own eggcases. Like sharks, the spotted ratfish are oviparous.<\/p>\n
\nIt has no economic importance as such. It is considered to be one of the oldest and most enigmatic fishes alive today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"