Fringefin lanternshark

Taxobox
name = Fringefin lanternshark


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status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Chondrichthyes
subclassis = Elasmobranchii
ordo = Squaliformes
familia = Dalatiidae
genus = "Etmopterus"
species = "E. schultzi"
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range_map_caption = Range of the fringefin lanternshark (in blue)
binomial = "Etmopterus schultzi"
binomial_authority = Bigelow, Schroeder & Springer, 1953The fringefin lanternshark, "Etmopterus schultzi", is a shark of the family Dalatiidae found in the western central Atlantic from Texas to Florida, northern Gulf of Mexico, and Mexico between latitudes 30° N and 21° N, at depths of between 200 and 1,000 m. Its length is up to 30 cm.

The fringefin lanternshark is a slender species. On the sides there are widely-spaced slender-crowned hooked denticles, not in regular rows. The second dorsal fin is about twice the area of the first. The first dorsal fin has a small leading spine, the second a much larger spine slightly curved to the rear.

Coloration is light brown above, dusky-grey below, with an elongated narrow dusky mark above and behind the pelvic fins, and on the caudal peduncle. 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 0-691-12072-2