Common names
Tollo lucero, Tollo negro narigón, Sagre long nez, Sagre longnez, Sagre porte-feu, Black shark, Lucifer, New Zealand lanternshark, Seal shark, Southern lantern shark, Southern lanternshark, Southern laternshark, Stout deepsea shark

Short Description
A large, heavy-bodied lanternshark with a big head [536], bladelike unicuspidate teeth in lower jaw and teeth with cusps and cusplets in upper jaw, stocky body, conspicuous lines of denticles on body, conspicuous black markings on underside of body and tail, with tail marking short and not extending far posteriorly [518]. Dark brown or black in color, possibly darker below [578].

Distribution
Southeast Pacific: Chile, Southwest Pacific: Australia, New Zealand; Southwest Atlantic: southern Chile, southern Argentina, the Falkland Islands; Southeast Atlantic: South Africa; Indian Ocean, Southern Madagascar Ridge & Amsterdam Island Source: www.gbif.org

Human uses
fisheries: of no interest

Biology
Ovoviviparous, with 10-13 in a litter [1388]. Size at birth about 18 cm [1388]. Distinct pairing with embrace [17086]. Found on the continental slope (Ref. 75154).

Size / Weight / Age
60.0 cm TL (male/unsexed; [536])

Habitat
bathydemersal; marine; depth range 220 - 1620 m (Ref. 44037)

Dentition
Teeth of Etmopterus baxteri (synonym of E. granulosus): Teeth 14-1-14/25-27, dissimilar in the two jaws. The upper teeth erect, each with a long, sharply-pointed, awl-shaped, smooth-edged major cusp flanked on each side by up to four small lesser cusps, and borne on a longitudinally-striated bifid base. Most of the upper teeth have three lesser cusps on each side of the major cusp, with the middle cusp of these three considerably larger than the others though not more than one-third the length of the major cusp. A few teeth near the centre of the jaw have four lesser cusps on each side, with the largest lesser cusp separated from the major cusp by two small lesser cusps, while in the teeth towards the angle of the jaw there is a reduction in the number of lesser cusps to one or two on each side. Three series of upper teeth functional at the centre of the jaw, two towards the angles. The lower teeth blade-like, each with a smooth, little-sculptured, rectangular base almost twice as high as broad, and bearing a single, smooth-edged, triangular cusp. Each cusp is sharply notched laterally, strongly oblique, and overlaps the adjacent cusp so that an almost continuous cutting edge is formed. There is no median tooth, and the base of the first tooth on the left side overlaps that of the first tooth on the right. A single series of lower teeth functional [2751];

Remarks
shark-references Species-ID=2174; Links:

digital version of the original description of E. granulosus: GÜNTHER, A. 1880: Report on the shore fishes procured during the voyage of H. M. S. Challenger in the years 1873-1876, 1 (6): 1-82, Pls. 1-32"

digital version of the original description of E. baxteri: GARRICK, J.A.F. 1957: Studies on New Zealand Elasmobranchii. Part VI. Two new species of Etmopterus from New Zealand. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 116 (3): 169-190"

Parasites (arranged by Jürgen Pollerspöck)
Monogenea

• Asthenocotyle sp. [26778]
• Calicotyle sp. [26778]
• Squalonchocotyle spinacis (Gotto, 1894) [26778]

Cestoda

• Aporhynchus sp. [26778]
• Aporhynchus tasmaniensis Beveridge, 1990 [16251] [16112]
• Gilquinia squali (Fabricius, 1794) [16182] [25154]
• Hepatoxylon sp. [26778]
• Plesiorhynchus etmopteri Beveridge, 1990 [16112]
• Plesiorhynchus sp. [26778]

Trematoda

• Otodistomum sp. [26778]

Nematoda

• Anisakis sp. [26778]

Copepoda

• Neoalbionella etmopteri (Yamaguti, 1939) [28980]
• Neoalbionella sp. [16586] [26778]

Thecostraca

• Anelasma sp. [6891]
• Anelasma squalicola Darwin, 1851 [26778] [31266]