Etmopteridae

• Main Authors: Bañon, Rafael, Arronte, Juan Carlos, Rodriguez-Cabello, Cristina, Piñeiro, Carmen-Gloria, Punzon, Antonio, Serrano, Alberto
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Elasmobranchii; Squaliformes; Etmopteridae; Canada; Greenland; Indian; Lowe; Norway; Pacific; Rodriguez; Iceland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5618844; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5618844

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 femal...