Caribbean lanternshark | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Order: | Squaliformes |
Family: | Etmopteridae |
Genus: | Etmopterus |
Species: | E. hillianus |
Binomial name | |
Etmopterus hillianus (Poey, 1861) |
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Range of the Caribbean lanternshark (in blue) |
The Caribbean lanternshark, Etmopterus hillianus, is a shark of the family Etmopteridae found in the eastern and western Atlantic at depths of between 180 and 720 m. Its length is up to 50 cm.
Reproduction is ovoviviparous.