Cylindrical lanternshark
The cylindrical lanternshark or Carter Gilbert's lanternshark (Etmopterus carteri) is a shark of the family Etmopteridae found along the Caribbean coast of Colombia in South America, at depths of between 285 and 355 m. Its maximum length is 21 cm.
| Cylindrical lanternshark | |
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| Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Chordata | 
| Class: | Chondrichthyes | 
| Superorder: | Selachimorpha | 
| Order: | Squaliformes | 
| Family: | Etmopteridae | 
| Genus: | Etmopterus | 
| Species: | E. carteri | 
| Binomial name | |
| Etmopterus carteri (S. Springer & G. H. Burgess, 1985) | |
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| Range of the cylindrical lanternshark (in blue) | |
Reproduction is presumed to be ovoviviparous, with three to 20 pups of 10 – 20 cm in length per litter.[2]
Etymology
    
The shark is named in honor of Carter R. Gilbert (1930-2022), of the Florida Museum of Natural History, because of his 1967 revision of the hammerhead sharks.[3]
References
    
- Pollom, R.; Mejía-Falla, P.A.; Navia, A.F.; Herman, K. (2020). "Etmopterus carteri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T60238A124454988. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T60238A124454988.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- Florida Atlantic University (2007). "The Lantern Sharks" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-01. Retrieved 2011-05-20.
- Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order SQUALIFORMES (Dogfish Sharks)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Etmopterus carteri" in FishBase. July 2006 version.
- Compagno, Dando, & Fowler, Sharks of the World, Princeton University Press, New Jersey 2005 ISBN 0-691-12072-2
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