Euprotomicrus bispinatus

* Euprotomicrus bispinatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824). Pygmy Shark. To 30.5 cm (12 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Circumglobal; a few caught about 500 miles off central and southern California (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, Californ...

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Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 2021
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Elasmobranchii
Squaliformes
Dalatiidae
Euprotomicrus
Euprotomicrus bispinatus
Yukon
Milton
Beaufort Sea
Alaska
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/5818688
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818688
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Summary:* Euprotomicrus bispinatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824). Pygmy Shark. To 30.5 cm (12 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Circumglobal; a few caught about 500 miles off central and southern California (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California; Ebert 2003); Chile and Peru (Ebert 2016), and Easter Island (Pequeño 1989). Depth: surface (at night) to at least 1,500 m (4,920 ft) (Ebert et al. 2013). This species might more properly be placed in the genus Squaliolus (Naylor et al. 2012). Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 22, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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