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

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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 About SAIAB , SAIAB 6195 About SAIAB , SAIAB 2430 About SAIAB , SAIAB 2431 About SAIAB , SAIAB 2432 About SAIAB , SAIAB 2588 About SAIAB , SAIAB 21930 About SAIAB , SAIAB 21931 About SAIAB , SAIAB 25308 About SAIAB , SAIAB 25309 About SAIAB , SAIAB 25735 About SAIAB , SAIAB 26256 About SAIAB , SAIAB 26258 About SAIAB , SAIAB 26259 About SAIAB , SAIAB 26265 About SAIAB , 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).