Euprotomicrus bispinatus (Quoy & Gaimard 1824)
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Elasmobranchii
- order
- Squaliformes
- family
- Dalatiidae
- genus
- Euprotomicrus
- species
- Euprotomicrus bispinatus
description
Pygmy Shark. To 30.5 cm (12 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Circumglobal; a few caught about 500 miles off central and southern California (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California; Ebert 2003); Chile and Peru (Ebert 2016), and Easter Island (Pequeño 1989). Depth: surface (at night) to at least 1,500 m (4,920 ft) (Ebert et al. 2013). This species might more properly be placed in the genus Squaliolus (Naylor et al. 2012).