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Euprotomicrus bispinatus

Description

* Euprotomicrus bispinatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824).

Pygmy Shark. To 30.5 cm (12 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Circumglobal; a few caught about 500 miles off central and southern California (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California; Ebert 2003); Chile and Peru (Ebert 2016), and Easter Island (Pequeño 1989). Depth: surface (at night) to at least 1,500 m (4,920 ft) (Ebert et al. 2013). This species might more properly be placed in the genus Squaliolus (Naylor et al. 2012).

Notes

Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
  • Ebert, D. A. (2003) Sharks, Rays, and Chimaeras of California. University of California Press, Berkeley.
  • Ebert, D. A. (2016) Deep-sea Cartilaginous Fishes of the Southeastern Pacific Ocean. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes, No. 10. Rome, FAO.
  • Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.
  • Ebert, D. A., Fowler, S. & Compagno, L. (2013) Sharks of the World. Wild Nature Press, Plymouth, Great Britain. 528 p.
  • Naylor, G. J. P., Caira, J. N., Jensen, K., Rosana, K. A. M., White, W. T. & Last, P. R. (2012) A DNA sequence-based approach to the identification of shark and ray species and its implications for global elasmobranch diversity and parasitology. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Number 367. https: // doi. org / 10.1206 / 754.1