Species Etmopterus unicolor (Engelhardt, 1912)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Spinax unicolor Engelhardt, R. 1912. Über einige neue Selachier-Formen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 39(21/22): 643-648 [645].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZSM (destroyed in WWII - see Neumann (2006)), Sagami Bay, Honshu, Japan.

 

Generic Combinations

• Etmopterus unicolor (Engelhardt, 1912). —
  Compagno, L.J.V. 1984. FAO Species Catalogue. Sharks of the World. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of shark species known to date. Hexanchiformes to Lamniformes. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125. Rome : FAO Vol. 4(1) pp. 1-249. [86]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Mid continental slope off Crowdy Head, NSW to Perth, WA and TAS, also off Norfolk Island; temperate. disjunct (South Africa, New Zealand, Japan).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Norfolk Island Province (21), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental slope, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

750-1500 m

 

General References

Compagno, L.J.V., Dando, M. & Fowler, S. 2005. A Field Guide to the Sharks of the World. London : Collins 368 pp. [108] (possibly from Australia)

Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 1994. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Canberra : CSIRO Australia 513 pp. 84 pls. [74] (as Etmopterus sp. B)

Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 2009. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Australia 2, 550 pp. [85]

Neumann, D. 2006. Type catalogue of the ichthyological collection of the Zoologische Staatssammlung München. Part I: Historic type material from the "Old Collection", destroyed in the night 24/25 April 1944. Spixiana (Munich) 29(3): 259-285

White, W. 2008. Shark Families Heterodontidae to Pristiophoridae. pp. 32-100 in Gomon, M.F., Bray, D.J. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). Fishes of Australia's Southern Coast. Sydney : Reed New Holland 928 pp. [89]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Jun-2024	ELASMOBRANCHII	16-Apr-2024	MODIFIED
16-Apr-2012		16-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)