THE NATURAL-HISTORY CATALOGUE
A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Etmopterus caudistigmus Last, Burgess & Séret, 2002 | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Etmopterus compagnoi Fricke & Koch, 1990 | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Etmopterus decacuspidatus Chan, 1966 | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Etmopterus dianthus Last, Burgess & Séret, 2002 | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Etmopterus dislineatus Last, Burgess & Séret, 2002 | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Etmopterus evansi Last, Burgess & Séret, 2002 | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Etmopterus fusus Last, Burgess & Séret, 2002 | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| broadband lantern sharkEtmopterus gracilispinis Krefft, 1968 | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| southern lanternsharkEtmopterus granulosus (Günther, 1880) | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Etmopterus heterodontus Ng & Lin, 2026 | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| blackbelly dogfishEtmopterus hillianus (Poey, 1861) | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Etmopterus joungi Knuckey, Ebert & Burgess, 2011 | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Laila’s lanternsharkEtmopterus lailae Ebert, Papastamatiou, Kajiura & Wetherbee, 2017 | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Etmopterus litvinovi Parin & Kotlyar, 1990 | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| blackbelly lanternsharkEtmopterus lucifer Jordan & Snyder, 1902 | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Marsha’s lanternsharkEtmopterus marshae Ebert & Van Hees, 2018 | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Etmopterus molleri (Whitley, 1939) | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Etmopterus perryi Springer & Burgess, 1985 | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Etmopterus polli Bigelow, Schroeder & Springer, 1953 | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| great lanternsharkEtmopterus princeps Collett, 1904 | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Etmopterus prostigmus Ng & Lin, 2026 | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Etmopterus pseudosqualiolus Last, Burgess & Séret, 2002 | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Slender lanternsharkEtmopterus pusillus (Lowe, 1839) | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Etmopterus pycnolepis Kotlyar, 1990 | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Etmopterus robinsi Schofield & Burgess, 1997 | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Etmopterus samadiae White, Ebert, Mana & Corrigan, 2017 | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Etmopterus schultzi Bigelow, Schroeder & Springer, 1953 | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Etmopterus sculptus Ebert, Compagno & De Vries, 2011 | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| thorny lanternsharkEtmopterus sentosus Bass, D'Aubrey & Kistnasamy, 1976 | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Etmopterus sheikoi (Dolganov, 1986) | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| velvet bellyEtmopterus spinax (Linnaeus, 1758) | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Etmopterus splendidus Yano, 1988 | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Brown lanternsharkEtmopterus unicolor (Engelhardt, 1912) | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Etmopterus villosus Gilbert, 1905 | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Etmopterus virens Bigelow, Schroeder & Springer, 1953 | EtmopteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Etobema antra Swinhoe, 1903 | ErebidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Etobema eleuterioides Semper, 1899 | ErebidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Etobema fusciapicalis Rothschild, 1915 | ErebidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Etobema ragonoti Mabille, 1880 | ErebidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Etoushanoceras ergouense Yang & Xiong, 1990 | AraxoceratidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Etrema aliciae (Melvill & Standen, 1895) | ClathurellidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Etrema argillacea (Hinds, 1843) | ClathurellidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Etrema bicolor (Angas, 1871) | ClathurellidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Etrema crassilabrum (Reeve, 1843) | ClathurellidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Etrema crassina (Angas, 1880) | ClathurellidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Etremopsis erecta A. W. B. Powell, 1942 | ClathurellidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Etremopsis haroldi A. W. B. Powell, 1942 | ClathurellidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Etrocorema belumensis Wan Nur Asiah & Che Salmah, 2009 | PerlidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Etrocorema hochii (Wu, 1938) | PerlidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Etroga efetovi Richter, 1995 | TachinidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.