False lanternshark

False lanternshark
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Squaliformes
Family: Etmopteridae
Genus: Etmopterus
Species: E. pseudosqualiolus
Binomial name
Etmopterus pseudosqualiolus
Last, G. H. Burgess & Séret, 2002
Range of the false lanternshark (in blue)

The false lanternshark, Etmopterus pseudosqualiolus, is a shark of the family Etmopteridae found in the western Pacific from the Norfolk Ridge and Lord Howe Ridge off New Caledonia.

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