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Etmopterus, the Glossary

Index Etmopterus

Etmopterus is a genus of lantern sharks in the squaliform family Etmopteridae.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 82 relations: African lanternshark, Albert Günther, Anelasma, Atlantic Ocean, Barrie's lanternshark, Blackbelly lanternshark, Blackmouth lanternshark, Blue-eye lanternshark, Blurred lanternshark, Broadbanded lanternshark, Brown lanternshark, Caribbean lanternshark, Carl Linnaeus, Charles Henry Gilbert, Combtoothed lanternshark, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Cylindrical lanternshark, David Starr Jordan, Deep sea, Dense-scale lantern shark, Dwarf lanternshark, Eocene, Etmopteridae, Etmopterus bullisi, Etmopterus burgessi, Etmopterus compagnoi, Etmopterus dislineatus, False lanternshark, Family (biology), Felipe Poey, Fringefin lanternshark, Genus, George Burgess (biologist), Gerhard Krefft, Gilbert Percy Whitley, Great lanternshark, Green lanternshark, Hawaiian lanternshark, Henry Bryant Bigelow, Host (biology), Hugh McCormick Smith, Indian Ocean, Jack Garrick, John Otterbein Snyder, Laila's lanternshark, Leonard Compagno, Lewis Radcliffe, List of prehistoric cartilaginous fish genera, Marsha's lanternshark, New Zealand lanternshark, ... Expand index (32 more) »

African lanternshark

The African lanternshark (Etmopterus polli) is a shark of the family Etmopteridae found in the eastern Atlantic between latitudes 12°N and 18°S, at depths between 300 and 1,000 m. Its length is up to 30 cm.

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Albert Günther

Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther, also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther (3October 18301February 1914), was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist.

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Anelasma

Anelasma is a monotypic genus of goose barnacles that live as parasites on various shark hosts.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Barrie's lanternshark

Barrie's lanternshark (Etmopterus brosei) is a type of lanternshark of the family Etmopteridae, found in Southwest Indian Ocean and Southeast Atlantic Ocean (precisely in South Africa, Madagascar Ridge, and southern Mozambique).

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Blackbelly lanternshark

The blackbelly lanternshark or lucifer shark (Etmopterus lucifer) is a shark of the family Etmopteridae found around the world in tropical and temperate seas at depths between 150 and 1,250 metersthe mesopelagic zone.

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Blackmouth lanternshark

The blackmouth lanternshark is a species of dogfish shark within the family Etmopteridae.

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Blue-eye lanternshark

The blue-eye lanternshark, also known as the traveller lanternshark or slate lanternshark (Etmopterus viator) is a shark of the family Etmopteridae.

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Blurred lanternshark

The blurred lanternshark (Etmopterus bigelowi) is a little-known species of dogfish shark in the family Etmopteridae, found around the world in benthic and pelagic habitats from a depth of to over down.

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Broadbanded lanternshark

The broadbanded lanternshark (Etmopterus gracilispinis) is a shark of the family Etmopteridae found in the western and southeast Atlantic, between latitudes 40°N and 45°S, at depths of between 70 and 1,000 m. Its length is up to 35 cm.

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Brown lanternshark

The brown lanternshark or bristled lanternshark (Etmopterus unicolor) is a little-known species of deep-sea dogfish shark in the family Etmopteridae.

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Caribbean lanternshark

The Caribbean lanternshark (Etmopterus hillianus) is a shark of the family Etmopteridae found in the eastern and western Atlantic at depths between 180 and 720 m. Its length is up to 50 cm.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.

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Charles Henry Gilbert

Charles Henry Gilbert (December 5, 1859 in Rockford, Illinois – April 20, 1928 in Palo Alto, California) was a pioneer ichthyologist and fishery biologist of particular significance to natural history of the western United States.

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Combtoothed lanternshark

The combtoothed lanternshark (Etmopterus decacuspidatus) is a shark of the family Etmopteridae the only specimen, and holotype, being found from the South China Sea between the Viet Nam coast and Hainan Island, at a depth of between 510 and 690 m. The holotype's length is 29 cm.

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Constantine Samuel Rafinesque

Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz (22 October 178318 September 1840) was a French early 19th-century polymath born near Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire and self-educated in France.

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Cylindrical lanternshark

The cylindrical lanternshark or Carter Gilbert's lanternshark (Etmopterus carteri) is a shark of the family Etmopteridae found along the Caribbean coast of Colombia in South America, at depths of between 285 and 355 m. Its maximum length is 21 cm.

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David Starr Jordan

David Starr Jordan (January 19, 1851 – September 19, 1931) was the founding president of Stanford University, serving from 1891 to 1913.

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Deep sea

The deep sea is broadly defined as the ocean depth where light begins to fade, at an approximate depth of or the point of transition from continental shelves to continental slopes.

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Dense-scale lantern shark

The dense-scale lanternshark (Etmopterus pycnolepis) is a shark of the family Etmopteridae found in the southeast Pacific off Peru and Chile.

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Dwarf lanternshark

The dwarf lanternshark (Etmopterus perryi) is a species of dogfish shark in the family Etmopteridae and is the smallest shark in the world, reaching a maximum known length of.

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Eocene

The Eocene is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma).

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Etmopteridae

The Etmopteridae are a family of sharks in the order Squaliformes, commonly known as lantern sharks.

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Etmopterus bullisi

Etmopterus bullisi, sometimes called the lined lanternshark, is a shark of the family Etmopteridae found in the western Atlantic from North Carolina to northern Florida, and Honduras, between latitudes 34°N and 15°N, at depths of up to 850 m. Its maximum length is more than 26 cm, but an adult has yet to be measured.

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Etmopterus burgessi

Etmopterus burgessi, sometimes known as the broad-snout lanternshark, is a lanternshark of the family Etmopteridae in the order Squaliformes.

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Etmopterus compagnoi

Etmopterus compagnoi is a shark of the family Etmopteridae found in the southeast Atlantic off southwestern Cape Province and northern Natal in South Africa at a depth of 479 to 923 metres.

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Etmopterus dislineatus

Etmopterus dislineatus, sometimes called the lined lanternshark, is a shark of the family Etmopteridae found in the central Coral Sea at depths of between 590 and 800 m. Its length is up to 45 cm.

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False lanternshark

The false lanternshark or false pygmy shark (Etmopterus pseudosqualiolus) is a shark of the family Etmopteridae found in the western Pacific from the Norfolk Ridge and Lord Howe Ridge off New Caledonia.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Felipe Poey

Felipe Poey (May 26, 1799 – January 28, 1891) was a Cuban zoologist.

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Fringefin lanternshark

The fringefin lanternshark (Etmopterus schultzi) is a shark of the family Etmopteridae found in the western central Atlantic from Texas to Florida, northern Gulf of Mexico, and Mexico.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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George Burgess (biologist)

George H. Burgess is an ichthyologist and fisheries biologist with the Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida.

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Gerhard Krefft

Gerhard Krefft (30 March 1912 - 20 March 1993) was a German ichthyologist and herpetologist.Stehmann & Hulley (1994).

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Gilbert Percy Whitley

Gilbert Percy Whitley (9 June 1903 – 18 July 1975) was a British-born Australian ichthyologist and malacologist who was Curator of Fishes at the Australian Museum in Sydney for about 40 years.

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Great lanternshark

The great lanternshark (Etmopterus princeps) is a shark of the family Etmopteridae found in the northeast and northwest Atlantic.

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Green lanternshark

The green lanternshark (Etmopterus virens) is a species of dogfish shark in the family Etmopteridae, found in the western central Atlantic Ocean.

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Hawaiian lanternshark

The Hawaiian Lanternshark (Etmopterus villosus) is a species of small squaliform shark in the family Etmopteridae.

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Henry Bryant Bigelow

Henry Bryant Bigelow (October 3, 1879 – December 11, 1967) was an American oceanographer and marine biologist.

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Host (biology)

In biology and medicine, a host is a larger organism that harbours a smaller organism; whether a parasitic, a mutualistic, or a commensalist guest (symbiont).

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Hugh McCormick Smith

Hugh McCormick Smith, also H. M. Smith (November 21, 1865 – September 28, 1941) was an American ichthyologist and administrator in the United States Bureau of Fisheries.

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Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approx.

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Jack Garrick

John Andrew Frank Garrick (24 March 1928 – 30 August 2018) was a New Zealand ichthyologist.

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John Otterbein Snyder

John Otterbein Snyder (August 14, 1867 – August 19, 1943) was an American ichthyologist and professor of zoology at Stanford University.

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Laila's lanternshark

Laila's lanternshark (Etmopterus lailae) is a species of lanternshark of the family Etmopteridae, found in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands (Koko and south Kanmu seamounts).

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Leonard Compagno

Leonard Joseph Victor Compagno (born 1943) is an international authority on shark taxonomy and the author of many scientific papers and books on the subject, best known of which is his 1984 catalogue of shark species produced for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.

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Lewis Radcliffe

Lewis Radcliffe (1880–1950) was a naturalist, malacologist, and ichthyologist.

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List of prehistoric cartilaginous fish genera

This list of prehistoric cartilaginous fish genera is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the class chondrichthyes and are known from the fossil record.

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Marsha's lanternshark

Marsha's lanternshark (Etmopterus marshae) is a species of shark in the family Etmopteridae.

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New Zealand lanternshark

The New Zealand lanternshark (Etmopterus baxteri) is a shark of the family Etmopteridae mainly found off the coast of New Zealand.

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Nikolai Vasilyevich Parin

Nikolai Vasilyevich Parin (21 November 1932 – 18 April 2012) was a Soviet and Russian ichthyologist, specializing in oceanic pelagic fish.

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Ninja lanternshark

The ninja lanternshark (Etmopterus benchleyi) is of the family Etmopteridae, found in the eastern Pacific Ocean from Nicaragua, south to Panama and Costa Rica.

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Nutrient

A nutrient is a substance used by an organism to survive, grow and reproduce.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Papuan lanternshark

The Papuan lanternshark (Etmopterus samadiae) is a species of shark in the family Etmopteridae, found in areas of Papua New Guinea.

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Parasitism

Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.

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Peter R. Last

Peter Robert Last is an Australian ichthyologist, curator of the Australian National Fish Collection and a senior principal research scientist at CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (CMAR) in Hobart, Tasmania.

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Pink lanternshark

The pink lanternshark (Etmopterus dianthus) is a shark of the family Etmopteridae found around Australia and New Caledonia, at depths of between 110 and 880 m.

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Pygmy lanternshark

The pygmy lanternshark (Etmopterus fusus) is a shark of the family Etmopteridae found in the eastern Indian Ocean from northern Western Australia and possibly Java, at depths of between 430 and 550 m. Its length is up to 26 cm.

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Rasptooth dogfish

The rasptooth dogfish (Etmopterus sheikoi) is a dogfish, found on the Kyushu–Palau Ridge in the northwest Pacific Ocean at depths of 360 m.Bailly, N. (2014).

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Richard Thomas Lowe

Richard Thomas Lowe (1802–1874) was an English scientist, a botanist, ichthyologist, malacologist, and a clergyman.

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Robert Collett

Robert Collett (2 December 1842 – 27 January 1913) was a Norwegian zoologist.

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Ronald Fricke

Ronald Fricke is a German ichthyologist and researcher of biodiversity at the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart.

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Sculpted lanternshark

The sculpted lanternshark (Etmopterus sculptus) is a shark of the family Etmopteridae found from the Southeast Atlantic and Southwest Indian Ocean, specifically from Namibia to southern Mozambique and the Madagascar Ridge.

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Shigeru Shirai

is a Japanese ichthyologist specializing in elasmobranchs, especially sharks.

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Short-tail lanternshark

The short-tail lanternshark (Etmopterus brachyurus) is a shark of the family Etmopteridae found in the western Pacific between latitudes 37°N and 30°S, at depths of between.

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Shortfin smooth lanternshark

The shortfin smooth lanternshark (Etmopterus joungi) is a shark of the family Etmopteridae found off the northeastern coast of Taiwan, at depths of between 430 and 550 m.

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Slendertail lanternshark

The slendertail lanternshark or Moller's lanternshark (Etmopterus molleri) is a shark of the family Etmopteridae found in the western Indian Ocean between latitudes 34°N and 46°S at depths between 250 and 860 m. It can grow up to 46 cm in length.

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Smalleye lanternshark

The smalleye lanternshark (Etmopterus litvinovi) is a shark of the family Etmopteridae found in the southeast Pacific off Peru and Chile, at depths between.

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Smooth lanternshark

The smooth lanternshark or slender lanternshark (Etmopterus pusillus) is a species of dogfish shark in the family Etmopteridae, found widely in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

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Southern lanternshark

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. This species has been found off Northland, off the Chatham Islands, on the Campbell Plateau, all in New Zealand waters.

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Splendid lanternshark

The splendid lanternshark (Etmopterus splendidus) is a shark of the family Etmopteridae found in the western Pacific at depths between 120 and 210 m. Through the classification of Etmopterus species into several clades based on the positioning of their bioluminescent photophores, the splendid lanternshark can be considered a member of the Etmopterus pusillus clade.

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Squaliformes

The Squaliformes are an order of sharks that includes about 126 species in seven families.

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Stewart Springer

Stewart Springer (5 June 190623 August 1991) was an American ichthyologist and herpetologist.

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Tailspot lanternshark

The tailspot lanternshark (Etmopterus caudistigmus) is a shark of the family Etmopteridae found around New Caledonia, at depths of between 640 and 800 m. Its length is up to 31 cm.

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Thorny lanternshark

The thorny lanternshark (Etmopterus sentosus) is a shark of the family Etmopteridae found in the western Indian Ocean between latitudes 0° and 31°S, at depths between 200 and 500 m. Its length is up to 27 cm.

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Velvet belly lanternshark

The velvet belly lanternshark (or simply velvet belly) (Etmopterus spinax) is a species of dogfish shark in the family Etmopteridae.

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West Indian lanternshark

The West Indian lanternshark (Etmopterus robinsi) is a shark of the family Etmopteridae found in the western central Atlantic, at depths between.

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Whitecheek lanternshark

The whitecheek lanternshark (Etmopterus alphus) is a shark of the family Etmopteridae found in the western Indian Ocean.

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William Charles Schroeder

William Charles Schroeder (1895–1977) was an American ichthyologist.

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William Toby White

William Toby White is an Australian ichthyologist.

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10th edition of Systema Naturae

The 10th edition of Systema Naturae (Latin; the English title is A General System of Nature) is a book written by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus and published in two volumes in 1758 and 1759, which marks the starting point of zoological nomenclature.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etmopterus

Also known as Lantern shark, Lanternshark.

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