Etmopteridae ...

• Main Authors: Bañon, Rafael, Arronte, Juan Carlos, Rodriguez-Cabello, Cristina, Piñeiro, Carmen-Gloria, Punzon, Antonio, Serrano, Alberto
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Elasmobranchii; Squaliformes; Etmopteridae; Iceland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5618843; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5618843

Family Etmopteridae Etmopterus spinax (Linnaeus, 1758) —Velvet belly lantern shark 2,951 specimens were caught at depths between 643 and 1,115 m. Length data were available for 1,156 specimens ranging from 13 to 49 cm TL (33.9±7.5), with males between 13 and 44 cm TL (31.6±6.3, N=446) and females between 13 and 49 cm TL (35.8±7.6, N=680). Habitat and Distribution: bathydemersal, found on the outer continental shelves and upper slopes at depths of 70–2,000 m, mostly between 200 and 500 m. Eastern Atlantic, from Iceland and Norway to Gabon, including the Azores and Cape Verde islands and western Mediterranean Sea. Vulnerability: LC (IUCN), MHV (FishBase). Etmopterus pusillus (Lowe, 1839) —Smooth lanternshark 33 specimens were caught at depths between 643 and 936 m. Length data were available for 21 specimens ranging from 33 to 47 cm TL, with males between 33 and 45 cm (N=15) and females between 33 and 47 cm (N=6). Habitat and Distribution: benthopelagic, on the continental slopes, on or near bottom at a depth ... : Published as part of Bañon, Rafael, Arronte, Juan Carlos, Rodriguez-Cabello, Cristina, Piñeiro, Carmen-Gloria, Punzon, Antonio & Serrano, Alberto, 2016, Commented checklist of marine fishes from the Galicia Bank seamount (NW Spain), pp. 293-333 in Zootaxa 4067 (3) on page 298, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/256670 ...