Etmopterus fusus Last, Burgess & Séret, 2002

White, William T. & Ko’Ou, Alfred, 2018, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of Papua New Guinea, Zootaxa 4411 (1), pp. 1-82 : 14-15

Etmopterus fusus Last, Burgess & Séret, 2002

Pygmy Lanternshark

Etmopterus fusus Last, Burgess & Séret 2002: 217 , Figs 1b , 3b, 5b, 7b. Holotype: CSIRO H 3149-06. Type locality: off Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia.

Local synonymy: Etmopterus fusus —White et al. (2017c): 339, Figs 11c, 13 (PNG); White et al., 2018: 54, figs (PNG).

PNG voucher material: (1 spec.) NTUM 10318 , female 256 mm TL, north of Taviltae , Madang, 500–510 m depth, 17 Dec. 2012.

Remarks: First recorded from PNG by White et al. (2017c) based on a specimen collected from deepwater. Previously known from only 7 specimens from northwestern Australia in depths of 430–550 m; possibly also off Java in Indonesia at depths of 120– 200 m.

Figures

FIGURE 1. The current location of the KFRS collection in the biological sciences area of the University of PNG.