Euprotomicroides zantedeschia Hulley & Penrith, 1966

Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, Zootaxa 4947 (1), pp. 1-127 : 34

Euprotomicroides zantedeschia Hulley & Penrith, 1966

Taillight Shark

Euprotomicroides zantedeschia Hulley & Penrith, 1966: 222 , figs. a–g. Holotype (unique): SAM 23577. Type locality: West of Cape Town, Western Cape Province, South Africa, southeast Atlantic.

Local synonymy: Euprotomicroides zantedeschia: Hulley & Penrith, 1966: 222 , figs. a–g; Bass et al., 1976: 50, fig. 32h; Compagno, 1984a: 89, fig.; Bass et al., 1986: 57, fig. 5.17; Compagno et al., 1989: 34, pl.; Compagno et al., 1991: 64; Compagno, 1999: 115; Compagno et al., 2005, fig., pl. 14; Ebert et al., 2013 a: 168, fig., pl. 17; Ebert, 2015: 105, fig. 122; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 144; Weigmann, 2016: 892.

South Africa voucher material: SAM 23577 .

South Africa distribution: Known from a single specimen caught west of Cape Town (WC).

Remarks: A rare species known from only three additional specimens; one from off Uruguay, southwest Atlantic, and two off Chile, southeast Pacific.

Conservation status: LC (2019).