Blackbelly lanternshark
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Blackbelly lanternshark | |
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Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling | |
Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Order: | Squaliformes |
Family: | Etmopteridae |
Genus: | Etmopterus |
Species: | E. lucifer |
Binomial name | |
Etmopterus lucifer D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1902 | |
Range of the blackbelly lanternshark (in blue) | |
The blackbelly lanternshark or lucifer shark, Etmopterus lucifer, is a shark of the family Etmopteridae, found around the world in tropical to temperate seas, at depths between 150 and 1,250 m. Its length is up to 47 cm or 1½ ft.
Blackbelly lanternsharks are ovoviviparous.
References
Wikispecies has information related to: Etmopterus lucifer |
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Etmopterus lucifer" in FishBase. May 2006 version.
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8
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