Etmopterus splendidus Yano, 1988

Type locality: off Shimo-Koshiki Island, 31°46.0' N, 129°43.8' E, Japan.

The six Taiwanese samples of E. splendidus formed a single cluster together with an additional sample (GN995) also from Taiwan (Figure 2, Supplementary Material 1). This cluster is sister to a clade comprising one sample of E. sentosus (GN7402) from the Indian Ocean off Mozambique.