A second species of Arctic shark: Pacific sleeper shark Somniosus pacificus from Point Hope, Alaska

We report a dead, 229-cm-long Pacific sleeper shark, Somniosus pacificus , discovered in 1998 along the shore at Point Hope, Alaska. This is the first definitive record of this species from within the Arctic Circle, the first definitive report of a shark from the Chukchi Sea, and the first report of a shark other than a Greenland shark from within the Arctic Circle.