Description

Body moderately firm, slightly compressed body. Dorsal and ventral coloration dark; fins dark distally. Caudal peduncle rather elongate (ca 2.2 times greatest horizontal length of D1 including spine, about 1/5 TL). Mouth relatively broad, 1.4 times eye length. Upper eyelid with pale naked patch. Denticles short, robust, arranged in regular rows. Flank-marking posterior branch truncate and merging ventrally with post-pelvic marking. Anterior part of caudal base marking very broad, enveloping ventral surface and extending to flanks; central caudal oval, well separated from caudal base marking; upper caudal marking straight . Monospondylous centra 40 (Ref. 45056).

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Elasmobranchii

Order: Squaliformes

Family: Etmopteridae

Genus: Etmopterus

Species: Etmopterus caudistigmus Last, Burgess & Séret, 2002

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Ovoviviparous (Ref. 205).

Habitat

oceanic