- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classElasmobranchii
- ›orderSqualiformes
- ›familyDalatiidae
- ›genusEuprotomicrus
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Pygmy shark
Euprotomicrus bispinatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
Also calledDwerghaai (nld) · Pygmäenhai (deu) · Squale pygmée (fra) · Squalo pigmeo comune (ita) · Tollo Pigmeo (spa) · kääpiöhai (fin) · světloun dvojtrnný (ces) · tiburón pigmeo (spa) · Карликовая акулка (rus) · Карликовая светящаяся акула (rus) · قرش قزم (ara) · オキコビトザメ (jpn) · ツマリコビトザメ (jpn)
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
description
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).
Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
discussion
Remarks: Bass et al. (1976) reported two specimens, a 14.8 cm TL immature male taken off the KZN coast at the surface over very deep water at night and a 21.2 cm TL mature male taken 800 km northwest of Cape Town.
An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa
discussion
Remarks: Bass et al. (1976) reported two specimens, a 14.8 cm TL immature male taken off the KZN coast at the surface over very deep water at night and a 21.2 cm TL mature male taken 800 km northwest of Cape Town. Conservation status: LC (2015).
An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa
distribution
South Africa distribution: Known from off Cape Town (WC) and off Port Shepstone (KZN).
An annotated checklist of the chondrichthyans of South Africa
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Euprotomicrus bispinatus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2420886.