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unusual facts about 40th parallel north


Praunus flexuosus

Praunus flexuosus lives along the coast of the north Atlantic Ocean between 40° north and 71° north, and in the Baltic Sea.


Broadbanded lanternshark

The broadbanded lanternshark, Etmopterus gracilispinis, is a shark of the family Etmopteridae found in the western and southeast Atlantic, between latitudes 40°N and 45°S, at depths of between 70 and 1,000 m.

Palliser Expedition

Unable to find passes to the Pacific north of the 49th Parallel they reunited with Hector in Fort Colvile, and traveled 598 miles downstream on the Columbia River to Fort Vancouver and the Pacific Coast, then onto Fort Victoria, then returned by ship through San Francisco and Panama, then to Montreal and back to Liverpool.

Slender bamboo shark

The slender bamboo shark, Chiloscyllium indicum, is a bamboo shark in the family Hemiscylliidae found in the Indo-West Pacific Oceans between latitudes 40° N and 10° S, and longitude 65° E and 160° E.

Spotless smooth-hound

The spotless smooth-hound (Mustelus griseus) is a species of houndshark, family Triakidae, found on the continental shelves of the northwest Pacific between latitudes 40° N and 11° N, from the surface to 300 m.

Tripod fish

Bathypterois grallator has been found relatively widely in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans from a northern latitude of the 40th parallel north to a southern latitude of the 40th parallel south.

Zebra bullhead shark

The Zebra bullhead shark (Heterodontus zebra) is a bullhead shark of the family Heterodontidae, found in the subtropical western Pacific Ocean between latitudes 40° N to 20° S, at depths of between 50 and 200 m.


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