Black Dogfish
Spinax fabricii Reinhardt, 1825: 3. Syntypes: ZMUC P 07106 [ex 185] (1 stuffed). Type locality: Julianehåb, Greenland, western North Atlantic.
Local synonymy: Centroscyllium fabricii: Compagno, 1984a: 47, fig.; Compagno et al., 1989: 28, pl.; Compagno et al., 1991: 56; Ebert et al., 1992: 603; Compagno, 1999: 114; Ebert et al., 2013a: 122, fig., pl. 8; NPOA, 2013: 37; Ebert, 2015: 71, fig. 77; Ebert & Mostarda, 2015: 24, fig.; Ebert & van Hees, 2015: 144; Compagno, 2016: 1185; Weigmann, 2016: 893.
South Africa voucher material: SAIAB 25708, SAIAB 25736, SAIAB 26338, SAIAB 26339, SAIAB 26340, SAIAB 26424, SAIAB 26425, SAIAB 26426, SAIAB 26427, SAIAB 26428, SAIAB 26429, SAIAB 27183, SAIAB 30309.
South Africa distribution: From the Orange River (NC) to southwest of Cape Agulhas (WC).
Remarks: Compagno (1984a) reported the first South African record of this species from off the southwestern Cape. Previous southern African records were from off Namibia (Bass et al., 1976). This is one of the most common species of deep-sea lanternsharks off the South African west coast.
Conservation status: LC (2020).
Genus Etmopterus Rafinesque, 1810a
Lanternsharks
Etmopterus Rafinesque, 1810a: 14. Type species: Etmopterus aculeatus Rafinesque, 1810a, by monotypy.
Genus Etmopterus Rafinesque, 1810a
Lanternsharks
Etmopterus Rafinesque, 1810a: 14. Type species: Etmopterus aculeatus Rafinesque, 1810a, by monotypy.