It likes to rest during the day in shallow rocky bottoms and is active at night when it hunts its prey (crustaceans, sea urchins, groundfish) that it detects with the 2 barbels located near its mouth.
The species is ovoviviparous and the young sharks measure almost 30 cm when they’re born.
IUCN status: insufficient data
Scientific name: Ginglymostoma cirratum
