Taxonavigation

Familia: Etmopteridae
Genera: Etmopterus
Species: E. baxteri - E. bigelowei - E. brachyurus - E. bullisi - E. burgessi - E. carteri - E. caudistigmus - E. compagnoi - E. decacuspidatus - E. dianthus - E. dislineatus - E. evansi - E. fusus - E. gracilispinis - E. granulosus - E. hillianus - E. joungi – E. lailae – E. litvinovi - E. lucifer - E. molleri - E. perryi - E. polli - E. princeps - E. pseudosqualiolus - E. pusillus - E. pycnolepis - E. robinsi - E. samadiae – E. schultzi - E. sentosus - E. spinax - E. splendidus - E. tasmaniensis - E. unicolor - E. villosus - E. virens

Name

Etmopterus Rafinesque, 1810

• Type species: Etmopterus aculeatus Rafinesque, 1810 (= Squalus spinax Linnaeus, 1758)

References

• Rafinesque, C.S. 1810. Caratteri di alcuni nuovi generi e nuove specie di animali e piante della Sicilia, con varie osservazioni sopra i medisimi. Sanfilippo, Palermo. (Part 1 involves fishes, pp. [i–iv] 3–69 [70 blank], Part 2 with slightly different title, pp. ia–iva + 71–105 [106 blank]). Pls. 1–20.Reference page. 

• Ebert, D.A., Papastamatiou, Y., Kajiura, S.M. & Wetherbee, B.M. 2017. Etmopterus lailae sp. nov., a new lanternshark (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae) from the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Zootaxa 4237(2): 371–382. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4237.2.10 . Reference page. 
• Knuckey, J.D.S.; Ebert, D.A.; Burgess, G.H. 2011: Etmopterus joungi n. sp., a new species of lanternshark (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae) from Taiwan. Aqua, 17(2): 61–72.
• Straube, N.; Kriwet, J.; Schliewen, U.K. 2010: Cryptic diversity and species assignment of large lantern sharks of the Etmopterus spinax clade from the Southern Hemisphere (Squaliformes, Etmopteridae). Zoologica scripta, 40(1): 61–75. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2010.00455.x

• White, W.T., Ebert, D.A., Mana, R.R. & Corrigan, S. 2017. Etmopterus samadiae n. sp., a new lanternshark (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae) from Papua New Guinea. Zootaxa 4244(3): 339–354. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4244.3.3 . Reference page. 

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