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Scientific name: Etmopterus pusillus Nome comum: Lixinha da fundura; Gata-preta; Xarinha-preta Common name: Smooth lanternshark Classification: CHORDATA > ELASMOBRANCHII > Squaliformes > Etmopteridae Description: Global Distribution: Western Atlantic: northern Gulf of Mexico; southern Brazil to Argentina. Eastern Atlantic: Portugal to Namibia. Also occurs in oceanic waters between Argentina and South Africa. Western Indian Ocean, Western Pacific, and Southeast Pacific.   View Map BIOLOGICAL FEATURES Size: Maximum length 50.0 cm (total length). Age: Weight length rel.: Azores (Rosa et al. 2006): a=0.0030, b=3.097, r2=0.949 (n=307). Portugal, south coast (Borges et al. 2003): a=0.00387, b=2.963, r2=0.98 (n=49). Cape Verde (Pereira et al. 2012): a=0.0033, b=3.033, r2=0.972 (n=12). FishBase: Bayesian estimated length-weight: a=0.00295 (0.00174 - 0.00500), b=3.07 (2.91 - 3.23). Growth type: von Bertallanfy growth parameters: Reproduction: Ovoviviparous. Maturity: range 38 - 47 cm Behavioural ecology: Population structure & migrations: ECOLOGICAL FEATURES Depth range: FishBase: depth range 0 - 1070 m, usually 400 - 700 m. Canary Islands (Brito et al. 2002): 200 - 1100 m. Habitat: Benthopelagic. Found on or near the bottom of continental and insular slopes at depths from 275 to 1,000 m (possibly to 2,000 m); also oceanic in the south Atlantic from the surface to 710 m, possibly as deep as 1998 m. Feeding habits: Feeds on fish eggs, lanternfish, squid, and other small dogfish. Trophic level: FishBase: 4.2 FISHERIES Commercial interest: Not commercial. Sometimes caught as by-catch of the longline black scabbardfish fishery in Madeira. Conservation status: Global: Least concern. Europe: Data deficient. Nutritional information & food safety: REFERENCES Borges T.C., Olim S., Erzini K. (2003). Weight–length relationships for fish species discarded in commercial fisheries of the Algarve (southern Portugal). Journal of Applied Ichthyology, 19(6): 394-396. Brito A., Pascual P.J., Falcón J.M., Sancho A., González G. (2002). Peces de las islas Canarias. Catálogo comentado e ilustrado. Francisco Lemos Editor, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, 418 pp. Froese, R., Pauly D., editors (2011) .FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, (07/2014). www.fishbase.org/summary/Etmopterus-pusillus.html IUCN (2014). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1. www.iucnredlist.org Nieto A., Ralph G.M., Comeros-Raynal M.T., Kemp J., García Criado M., Allen D.J., Dulvy N.K., Walls R.H.L., Russell B., Pollard D., García S., Craig M., Collette B.B., Pollom R., Biscoito M., Labbish Chao N., Abella A., Afonso P., Álvarez H., Carpenter K.E., Clò S., Cook R., Costa M.J., Delgado J., Dureuil M., Ellis J.R., Farrell E.D., Fernandes P., Florin A-B., Fordham S., Fowle, S., Gil de Sola L., Gil Herrera J., Goodpaster A., Harvey M., Heessen H., Herler J., Jung A., Karmovskaya E., Keskin C., Knudsen S.W., Kobyliansky S., Kovačić M., Lawson J.M., Lorance P., McCully Phillips S., Munroe T., Nedreaas K., Nielsen J., Papaconstantinou C., Polidoro B., Pollock C.M., Rijnsdorp A.D., Sayer C., Scott J., Serena F., Smith-Vaniz W.F., Soldo A., Stump E., Williams J.T. (2015). Europen Red List of Marine Fishes. IUCN and European Union, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 90 pp. Pereira J.N., Simas A., Rosa A., Aranha A., Lino S., Constantino E., Monteiro V., Tariche O., Menezes G. (2012). Weight–length relationships for 27 demersal fish species caught off the Cape Verde archipelago (eastern North Atlantic). Journal of Applied Ichthyology, 28(1): 156-159. Rosa A., Menezes G., Melo O., Pinho M.R. (2006). Weight–length relationships of 33 demersal fish species from Azores archipelago. Fisheries Research, 80(2): 329-332.