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 020032 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority:

Etmopterus westraliensis   Ng, White, Liu & Joung, 2025

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes

Photographic Index of Australian Fishes (PIAF)

Image by: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
Rights: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection
Family: 37 20 Etmopteridae (Lantern Sharks) - show full list
Standard Name
(AS 5300): 		Short-Tail Lanternshark
Common Names List: short-tail lantern shark
Organism Type: a dogfish
Synonyms: Etmopterus brachyurus Smith & Radcliffe 1912 [in most references prior to Ng et al 2025]
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Slope Demersal (200-2000m)
Parent Codes: 37 020907     Etmopterus spp.
Previous Codes
(if any):		 020032
Distribution map:
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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2025-09-23.
Occurrence locations [2] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records Get expert distribution shapefile
Expected species depth range is from 400 to 610 m.
Taxon Notes:Updated from Etmopterus brachyurus after Ng et al 2025 description. Known only from Western Australia, from off Ledge Point (31 17 S) north to off the Exmouth Peninsula (22 22 S), at depths of 362–610 m. The true E. brachyurus is restricted to the North Pacific (Ng et al 2025).

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:2fadf354-2553-4601-ab02-d5f6691a8a93
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2025-09-23
View at Atlas of Living Australia
FoA 3504
View at FoA
ITIS 160675
View at ITIS
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215606
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2025-09-23
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
Record source and
Scientific Name
verified against:		 Ng, S-L., White, W.T., Liu, K-M. & S-J. Joung, 2025. Etmopterus westraliensis, a new species of lanternshark (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae) from Western Australia, with redescription of Etmopterus brachyurus, Journal of Fish Biology. doi:10.1111/jfb.70162
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