Southern lanternshark
| Southern lanternshark | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Order: | Squaliformes |
| Family: | Etmopteridae |
| Genus: | Etmopterus |
| Species: | E. granulosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Etmopterus granulosus (Günther, 1880) | |
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| Range of the southern lanternshark (in blue) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Etmopterus baxteri Garrick, 1957 [2] | |
The southern lanternshark (Etmopterus granulosus) is a shark of the family Etmopteridae found in the southeast Pacific between latitudes 29°S and 59°S, at depths of between 220 and 1,460 m. Its length is up to 60 cm. Reproduction is ovoviviparous, with 10 to 13 pups in a litter, length at birth about 18 cm.[2][3]
References
- ↑ Kyne, P.M. & Lamilla, J.M. 2007. Etmopterus granulosus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2007: e.T63118A12612506. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T63118A12612506.en. Downloaded on 14 October 2017.
- 1 2 Weigmann, S. (2016): Annotated checklist of the living sharks, batoids and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes) of the world, with a focus on biogeographical diversity. Journal of Fish Biology, 88 (3): 837–1037.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2017). "Etmopterus granulosus" in FishBase. June 2017 version.
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