CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Chordata (phylum)  »  Elasmobranchii (class)  »  Squaliformes (order)  »  Etmopteridae (family)

CAAB Code: 37 020005 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority:

Etmopterus abernethyi   Garrick, 1957

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes

Photographic Index of Australian Fishes (PIAF)

Image by: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection
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Rights: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection
Family: 37 20 Etmopteridae (Lantern Sharks) - show full list
Standard Name
(AS 5300): 		Blackbelly Lanternshark
Common Names List: blackbelly lantern shark
Organism Type: a dogfish
Synonyms: Etmopterus lucifer [in most references prior to 2025]
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Shelf Demersal (40-200m)
Slope Demersal (200-2000m)
Parent Codes: 37 020907     Etmopterus spp.
Previous Codes
(if any):		 020005
Distribution map:
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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2008-11-19.
Occurrence locations [198] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records Get expert distribution shapefile
Expected species depth range is from 160 to 1350 m.
Taxon Notes:Ng et al 2025 resurrected Etmopterus abernethyi for specimens collected from the southwestern Pacific previously assigned to Etmopterus lucifer. The latter species is restricted to the Northwestern Pacific.

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:38c70ea1-2b10-4e34-8a37-9547b8b2df4b
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2025-04-17
View at Atlas of Living Australia
FoA 3505
View at FoA
ITIS 160666
View at ITIS
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215604
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2025-04-17
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
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Record source and
Scientific Name
verified against:		 Ng, S-L., Straube, N., Liu, K-M. & S-J. Joung, 2025. Confusions across the hemispheres: Taxonomic re-evaluation of two lanternshark species, Etmopterus lucifer and E. molleri (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae), Vertebrate Zoology, Vol. 75: 59-86. doi:10.3897/vz.75.e126067
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