Etmopterus evansi Last, Burgess & Séret, 2002

White, William T. & Ko’Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, Zootaxa 4411 (1), pp. 1-82 : 14

Etmopterus evansi Last, Burgess & Séret, 2002

Blackmouth Lanternshark

Etmopterus evansi Last, Burgess & Séret 2002: 214 , Figs 2c , 4c, 6c, 8c. Holotype: CSIRO H 3141-16. Type locality: off Rowley Shoals, Western Australia.

Local synonymy: Etmopterus evansi —White et al., 2017c: 339, Figs 11b, 12 (Madang and Manus Provinces); White et al., 2018: 52, figs ( PNG).

PNG voucher material: (4 spec.) ASIZ P. P0080732, adult male 343 mm TL, west of Manus Island, 679–685 m depth, 29 Sep. 2010; ASIZ P. P0080733, female 177 mm TL, Astrolabe Bay, Madang, 608–610 m depth, 5 Oct. 2010; NTUM 10312, juvenile male 172 mm TL, Astrolabe Bay, Madang, 520–575m depth, 14 Dec. 2012; NTUM 10317, male 299 mm TL, east of Cape Croisiles, Madang, 680–689 m depth, 16 Dec. 2012;.

Remarks: First recorded from PNG by White et al. (2017c) based on four specimens collected from deepwater. Previously known from northwestern Australia and eastern Indonesia at depths of 430–555 m, thus represent the deepest records for this species (to 689 m depth).

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FIGURE 2. Number of museum specimen lots from PNG waters per 5-yearly intervals between 1820 and the present. All museum collections combined; grey bars dnote existing lots; red bars denote lost or destroyed lots.