Life Pisces Chondrichthyes Squaliformes Dalatiidae Etmopterinae

• Etmopterus bigelowi Shirai & Tachikawa, 1993
• Etmopterus brachyurus Smith & Radcliffe, 1912
• Etmopterus bullisi Bigelow & Schroeder, 1957
• Etmopterus carteri Springer & Burgess, 1985
• Etmopterus compagnoi Fricke & Koch, 1990
• Etmopterus decacuspidatus Chan, 1966
• Etmopterus gracilispinis Krefft, 1968
• Etmopterus granulosus Compagno, 1984

  • Spinax granulosus Gìnther, 1880; (valid as)
  • Etmopterus baxteri Garrick, 1957; (synonym)
• Etmopterus hillianus Compagno, 1984

  • Spinax hillianus Poey, 1861; (valid as)
• Etmopterus litvinovi Parin & Kotlyar, 1990
• Etmopterus lucifer Jordan & Snyder, 1902

  • Etmopterus abernethyi Garrick, 1957; (synonym)
• Etmopterus molleri

  • Acanthidium molleri Whitley, 1939; (valid as)
  • Etmopterus molleri Yamakawa et al., 1986; (valid as)
• Etmopterus perryi Springer & Burgess, 1985
• Etmopterus polli Bigelow, Schroeder & Springer, 1953
• Etmopterus princeps Collett, 1904
• Etmopterus pusillus Uyeno & Sasaki, 1983

  • Centrina nigra Lowe, 1834; (2 homonym)
  • Centrina nigra Lowe, 1834; (synonym)
  • Acanthidium pusillum Lowe, 1839; (valid as)
  • Etmopterus frontimaculatus Pietschmann, 1907; (synonym)
• Etmopterus pycnolepis Kotlyar, 1990
• Etmopterus robinsi Schofield & Burgess, 1997
• ?Etmopterus schmidti Dolganov, 1986
• Etmopterus schultzi Bigelow, Schroeder & Springer, 1953
• Etmopterus sentosus Bass, D'Aubrey & Kistnasamy, 1976
• Etmopterus spinax Krefft & Tortonese, 1973

  • Squalus spinax Linnaeus, 1758; (valid as)
  • Squalus niger Gunner, 1763; (synonym)
  • Etmopterus aculeatus Rafinesque, 1810; (synonym)
  • Spinax niger Cloquet, 1816; (unavailable, in synonymy)
  • Spinax niger Cloquet, 1816; (unavailable, no features)
  • Spinax spinax Cuvier, 1816; (valid as)
  • Spinax gunneri Reinhardt, 1825; (synonym)
  • Spinax vitulinus De la Pylaie, 1835; (synonym)
  • Spinax linnei Malm, 1877; (synonym)
  • Spinax linnei Malm, 1877; (unneeded replacement)
  • Spinax linn©i Malm, 1877; (misspelling)
• Etmopterus splendidus Yano, 1988
• Etmopterus unicolor Compagno, 1984

  • Spinax unicolor Engelhardt, 1912; (valid as)
• Etmopterus villosus Gilbert, 1905
• Etmopterus virens Bigelow, Schroeder & Springer, 1953

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  The taxonomic information and the basic database has been provided by; e-mail: Igor Sheremetyev; This is a conversion from a database dump, and there are probably many odd things as result of automatic conversion.