Etmopterus sculptus Ebert, Compagno, & De Vries, 2011

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 : 29-30

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4693710
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scientific name	Etmopterus sculptus Ebert, Compagno, & De Vries, 2011
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Etmopterus sculptus Ebert, Compagno, & De Vries, 2011 View in CoL View at ENA

Sculpted Lanternshark

Etmopterus sculptus Ebert, Compagno, & De Vries, 2011: 279 View in CoL , figs. 1–2. Holotype: SAM 37569. Type locality: 33°22.9'S, 17°29.1'E, off Cape Town GoogleMaps , South Africa.

Local synonymy: Etmopterus lucifer: Gilchrist, 1922b: 49 View in CoL ; Barnard, 1925: 50; Smith, 1949a: 59, fig. 52; Bigelow & Schroeder, 1957: 56; Smith, 1965: 59, fig. 52; Bass et al., 1976: 25, figs. 17, 18c; Compagno, 1984: 79, fig.; Compagno et al., 2005: 102, fig., pl. 8. Spinax lucifer View in CoL : Norman, 1935: 37. Etmopterus brachyurus: Bass et al., 1986: 55 View in CoL , fig. 5.11; Compagno et al., 1989: 30, pl.; Compagno et al., 1991: 61. Etmopterus cf. brachyurus: Ebert et al., 1992: 604 View in CoL ; Compagno, 1999: 114; Compagno, 2016: 1186, fig. Etmopterus sculptus: Ebert, 2013: 83 View in CoL , fig. 108; Ebert et al., 2013 a: 139, fig., pl. 10; Ebert & Mostada, 2013: 33, fig.; Ebert, 2015: 82, fig. 95; Ebert & Mostada, 2015: 29, fig.; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 144; Weigmann, 2016: 897.

South Africa voucher material: Holotype: SAM 37569 . Paratypes: SAM 33011, 37570 View Materials (2 specimens) , 37571 (2 specimens). Non-types: SAIAB 6191 View Materials , SAIAB 6195 View Materials , SAIAB 2430 View Materials , SAIAB 2431 View Materials , SAIAB 2432 View Materials , SAIAB 2588 View Materials , SAIAB 21930 View Materials , SAIAB 21931 View Materials , SAIAB 25308 View Materials , SAIAB 25309 View Materials , SAIAB 25735 View Materials , SAIAB 26256 View Materials , SAIAB 26258 View Materials , SAIAB 26259 View Materials , SAIAB 26265 View Materials , SAM F41924 View Materials -3 View Materials , SAM F41924 View Materials -4 View Materials .

South Africa distribution: Occurs along the entire South African coast from the Orange River (NC) to KZN border with Mozambique.

Remarks: Etmopterus sculptus was long misidentified in the South African literature either as E. brachyurus or E. lucifer , but both of these species occur in the Western Pacific. Etmopterus sculptus is one of the most common lanternshark species found in South African waters (after E. granulosus ).

Conservation status: LC (2019).