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Etmopterus alphus Ebert, Straube, Leslie, & Weigmann 2016
Description
Etmopterus alphus Ebert, Straube, Leslie, & Weigmann, 2016
Whitecheek Lanternshark
Etmopterus alphus Ebert, Straube, Leslie, & Weigmann, 2016: 2, figs. 1–6. Holotype: SAM MB-F37564. Type locality: east of the Zambezi River, central Mozambique, 18°14'S, 37°31'E.
Local synonymy: Etmopterus alphus: Ebert et al., 2016: 2, figs. 1–6.
South Africa voucher material: SAIAB 190352.
South Africa distribution: New record. Recently recorded off Durban (KZN).
Remarks: This recently described species was known only from off Mozambique, but is reported here for the first time in South African waters. It also occurs off Madagascar and on the Madagascar Ridge.
Conservation status: LC (2019).
Notes
Published as part of Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 4947 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4614567
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- SAM
- Family
- Etmopteridae
- Genus
- Etmopterus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- MB-F37564
- Order
- Squaliformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Ebert, Straube, Leslie, & Weigmann
- Species
- alphus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Etmopterus alphus Ebert, 2016 sec. Ebert, Wintner & Kyne, 2021
References
- Weigmann, S. (2016) Annotated checklist of the living sharks, batoids and chimaeras (Chondrichthyes) of the world, with a focus on biogeographical diversity. Journal of Fish Biology, 88, 837 - 1037. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / jfb. 12874
- Ebert, D. A., Straube, N., Leslie, R. W. & Weigmann, S. (2016) Etmopterus alphus n. sp.: a new lanternshark (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae) from the south-western Indian Ocean. African Journal of Marine Science, 38 (3), 329 - 340. https: // doi. org / 10.2989 / 1814232 X. 2016.1198275