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Issue: Vol. 4237 No. 2: 28 Feb. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-02-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4237.2.10
Page range: 371–382
Abstract views: 157
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Etmopterus lailae sp. nov., a new lanternshark (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae) from the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

Pacific Shark Research Center, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, 8272 Moss Landing Road, Moss Landing, CA 95039, USA. Research Associate, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Private Bag 1015, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa Research Associate, Department of Ichthyology, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, CA, 94118, USA
Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, North Miami, Florida 33181, USA
Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida 33431, USA
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881, USA and Guy Harvey Research Institute, Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL., USA
Pisces Chondrichthyes elasmobranch E. lucifer clade new species central North Pacific Ocean

Abstract

A new species of lanternshark, Etmopterus lailae (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae), is described from the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, in the central North Pacific Ocean. The new species resembles other members of the “Etmopterus lucifer” clade in having linear rows of dermal denticles, and most closely resembles E. lucifer from Japan. The new species occurs along insular slopes around seamounts at depths between 314–384 m. It can be distinguished from other members of the E. lucifer clade by a combination of characteristics, including a longer anterior flank marking branch, arrangement of dermal denticles on the ventral snout surface and body, flank and caudal markings, and meristic counts including number of spiral valve turns, and precaudal vertebrate. A key to species of the Etmopterus lucifer-clade is included.

 

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