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Etmopterus Pusillus
The smooth lanternshark or slender lanternshark (''Etmopterus pusillus'') is a species of Squaliformes, dogfish shark in the family (biology), family Etmopteridae, found widely in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It inhabits benthic environments at a depth of , and pelagic environments at a depth of . The smooth lanternshark forms a species group with the larger blurred lanternshark (''E. bigelowi''), both of which are distinguished from other members of their family by small, irregularly arranged dermal denticles with a truncated shape. This species has a slender, dark brown body with an indistinct black band on the sides over the pelvic fins, and reaches in length. This slow-growing, ovoviviparous shark feeds on smaller squid, fishes, and fish eggs. Smooth lanternsharks are often caught as bycatch in eastern Atlantic and Japanese commercial fishing, commercial fisheries. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has evaluated this species as of Least Concern beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Thomas Lowe
Richard Thomas Lowe (1802–1874) was an English scientist, a botanist, ichthyologist, malacologist, and a clergyman. In 1825 he graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge, and in the same year he took holy orders. In 1832 he became a clergyman in the Madeira Islands, where he was also a part-time naturalist, extensively studying the local flora and fauna. He wrote a book on the Madeiran flora. He died in 1874 when the ship he was on was wrecked off the Isles of Scilly. Taxa Lowe named and described numerous molluscan taxa, including: * ''Caseolus'', a land snail genus and eight species within it * ''Lemniscia'', a land snail A land snail is any of the numerous species of snail that live on land, as opposed to the sea snails and freshwater snails. ''Land snail'' is the common name for terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells (those without shells are known ... genus and two species within it See also * :Taxa named by Richard Thomas Lowe References * Notes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
