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Etmopterus spinax
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Description
Etmopterus spinax (Linnaeus 1758) —Velvet belly lantern shark
Taxonomy. First record from Lebanon as Etmopterus spinax by Aguillar et al. (2018: 81).
Distribution. Western Baltic Sea, northern North Sea, Mediterranean Sea, eastern Atlantic: Iceland and Norway to Senegal.
Conservation. IUCN: Global (LC: 1 December 2008); Med. (LC: 25 March 2016). Capture and threats: Unknown. Occurrence: Very rare. Low priority for conservation action.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- LC
- Event date
- 2008-12-01
- Family
- Etmopteridae
- Genus
- Etmopterus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Squaliformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- spinax
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2008-12-01/2016-03-25
- Taxonomic concept label
- Etmopterus spinax (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Bariche & Fricke, 2020