Euprotomicrus bispinatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)

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, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 22

* 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) .