Barrie's lanternshark | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Chondrichthyes |
Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
Subdivision: | Selachimorpha |
Order: | Squaliformes |
Family: | Etmopteridae |
Genus: | Etmopterus |
Species: | E. brosei
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Binomial name | |
Etmopterus brosei Ebert, Leslie & Weigmann, 2021
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Range of 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). [2] [1] It lives on seamounts and continental slopes at depths of 480–1,200 m (1,570–3,940 ft). [2] [1] This deep-water shark was previously misidentified with sculpted lanternshark and also resembles blackbelly lanternshark in having linear rows of dermal denticles. [2] [1]
Barrie's lanternshark has these sets of characteristics which making it differ from its congeners: the dermal denticles arrangement along the body; the presence of dermal denticles on the dorsal fin base; the arrangement of flank and caudal markings; the shape and size of flank markings; and the vertebral count. [2]
This shark is sometimes accidentally caught by deep-water fisheries operating in southern Africa. Nevertheless, the major population of this species lives deeper than the fisheries. [1]
Etmopterus brosei |
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