Chondrichthyes · Squaliformes
Greenland Shark
Somniosus microcephalus
Vertebrate record-holder for longevity, with radiocarbon dating of eye-lens proteins indicating lifespans of at least 272 years and possibly up to 400, reaching sexual maturity only after roughly 150 years of growth.
- Realm
- Marine
- Conservation status
- VUVulnerable
This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.
Method and versionA sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 792 licence-filtered records across 185 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.
Inspect on GBIFRetained datasets (37)
- Artportalen (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Atlantic Reference Centre (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Bay of Fundy Species List (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- DFO Central and Arctic Multi-species Stock Assessment Surveys (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- DFO Quebec Region Ecosystemic bottom trawl surveys (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- DFO Quebec Region MLI museum collection (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Fish (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Fish (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Fish (Ichtylogy) collection, Bergen (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Fish Collection at UiT (Tromsø) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- imr_fish (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- iNaturalist research-grade observations (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- MBIS research trawl surveys (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Natural History Museum Denmark|Ichthyology (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- NMNH Extant Biology (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- Northern Gulf of St. Lawrence Fishes (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Pisces (Luomus) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Saltvannfisk (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Sizing ocean giants: patterns of intraspecific size variation in marine megafauna (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)