Etmopterus alphus Ebert, Straube, Leslie, & Weigmann, 2016

Ebert, David A., Wintner, Sabine P. & Kyne, Peter M., 2021, An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa, Zootaxa 4947 (1), pp. 1-127 : 28

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4947.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4614614

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scientific name

Etmopterus alphus Ebert, Straube, Leslie, & Weigmann, 2016
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Etmopterus alphus Ebert, Straube, Leslie, & Weigmann, 2016 View in CoL View at ENA

Whitecheek Lanternshark

Etmopterus alphus Ebert, Straube, Leslie, & Weigmann, 2016: 2 , figs. 1–6. Holotype: SAM MB-F37564 . Type locality: east of the Zambezi River   GoogleMaps , central Mozambique, 18°14'S, 37°31'E.

Local synonymy: Etmopterus alphus: Ebert et al., 2016: 2 , figs. 1–6.

South Africa voucher material: SAIAB 190352.

South Africa distribution: New record. Recently recorded off Durban (KZN) .

Remarks: This recently described species was known only from off Mozambique, but is reported here for the first time in South African waters. It also occurs off Madagascar and on the Madagascar Ridge.

Conservation status: LC (2019).

SAIAB

South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity

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