Etmopterus burgessi

Etmopterus burgessi is a newly described lanternshark of the family Dalatiidae in the order Squaliformes.

The Etmopterus burgessi lives in the pelagic-oceanic, marine environment.

Etmopterus burgessi is a newly described lanternshark of the family Dalatiidae in the order Squaliformes. It is found only around Taiwan. More

Etmopterus burgessi (Schaaf-DaSilva and Ebert, in press), is named after George H. Burgess from the Florida Museum of Natural History. Etmopterus burgessi is unique from its congeners based on characters such as snout width, flank and caudal markings, and placement of dermal denticles. More

Center in California named the new species Etmopterus burgessi in a paper in the journal Zootaxa. The lanternshark was described from four specimens collected in deepwater trawls in the western North Pacific off Taiwan. More

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