Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles
Etmopterus lailae Sp Nov., a New Lanternshark (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae) from the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-28-2017
Publication Title
Zootaxa
Keywords
Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranch, E. lucifer clade, New species, Central North Pacific Ocean
ISSN
1175-5326
Volume
4237
Issue/No.
2
First Page
371
Last Page
382
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.
NSUWorks Citation
David A. Ebert, Yannis P. Papastamatiou, Stephen M. Kajiura, and Bradley M. Wetherbee. 2017. Etmopterus lailae Sp Nov., a New Lanternshark (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae) from the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands .Zootaxa , (2) : 371 -382. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facarticles/799.
ResearcherID
0000-0002-3753-8950
DOI
10.11646/zootaxa.4237.2.10
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