Lined lanternshark

Taxobox
name = Lined lanternshark


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status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1
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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Chondrichthyes
subclassis = Elasmobranchii
ordo = Squaliformes
familia = Dalatiidae
genus = "Etmopterus"
species = "E. bullisi"
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range_map_caption = Range of the lined lanternshark (in blue)
binomial = "Etmopterus bullisi"
binomial_authority = Bigelow & Schroeder, 1957The lined lanternshark, "Etmopterus bullisi", is a shark of the family Dalatiidae 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.

The lined lanternshark has a long tail and conspicuous longitudinal rows of denticles on the head, sides, and back, to the caudal fin base. The gill openings are very short.

Coloration is dark sooty-grey, with a black underside, and a lighter band on the midline from the eye to the first dorsal fin.

Reproduction is presumed to be ovoviviparous.

References

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* Compagno, Dando, & Fowler, "Sharks of the World", Princeton University Press, New Jersey 2005 ISBN 978-0-691-12072-0