Chilean angelshark

The Chilean angelshark, Squatina armata, is a flattened, ray-like shark of the angelshark family Squatinidae that lives in the subtropical coastal waters of Chile. It grows to about 1.03 meters, or 3 feet 5 inches, in length and gives birth to live young that develop from eggs held inside the mother, a mode called ovoviviparity. Studies of its stomach contents show a narrow, specialist diet of lizardfish and other bony fishes, crustaceans, mollusks, other cartilaginous fishes and some shrimp, and it is described as a selective predator that eats fish and crustaceans in particular environments. The original holotype specimen has been lost, so a neotype was designated when the species was redescribed in 2024, which fixed the name to a physical reference specimen again.