bigelowi, Etmopterus Shirai [S.] & Tachikawa [H.] 1993:487, Figs. 1b-d, 2b, 5b [Copeia 1993 (no. 2); ref. 20599] Off Angola, 11°37'S, 5°13'W, southeastern Atlantic, depth 526 meters. Holotype: HUMZ 100176. Paratypes: AMS 22809-034 (2); CAS 48786 (1), 56056 (1); FAKU 46064 (1); FSFL-EM 427 (1), 564-66 (3), 873 (1); FUMT-P 10094 (1), 10503-08 (6); GCRL 15729 (1), HUMZ 68734 (1), 74378 (1), 100025 (1), 100028 (1), 100042 (1), 100175 (1), 100177-78 (2), 100180 (1); MCZ 39572 (1), 39743-44 (1, 1), 39757-58 (2), 40677 (1); NSMT-P 40022 (1); SIO 85-171 (1); USNM 157835 (1), 220331-32 (8, 2). •Valid as Etmopterus bigelowi Shirai & Tachikawa 1993 -- (Heemstra in Smith & Heemstra 1995:v [ref. 21953], McEachran & Fechhelm 1998:114 [ref. 23897], Compagno 1999:473 [ref. 25589], Soto 2001:7 [ref. 26631], Soto 2001:66, 91 [ref. 26637], Last et al. 2002:222 [ref. 26556], Compagno 2003:398 [ref. 26984], Gadig & Gomes in Menezes et al. 2003:26 [ref. 27192], Nelson et al. 2004:50 [ref. 27807], Mundy 2005:100 [ref. 28379], Hoese & Gates 2006:143 [ref. 28997], Knuckey et al. 2011:62 [ref. 31280], Castro 2011:98 [ref. 31457], Page et al. 2013:53 [ref. 32708], Lins Oliveira et al. 2015:32 [ref. 37485], Del Moral-Flores et al. 2016:140 [ref. 34398], Weigmann 2016:58 [ref. 34211], Compagno 2016:1186 [ref. 34544], Nión et al. 2016:21 [ref. 35565], Almeida & Biscoito 2019:105 [ref. 37302], Brown et al. 2019:154 [ref. 36444], Canani & Oddone 2020:35 [ref. 38960], Ebert et al. 2021:28 [ref. 38234], Blanco-Parra & Niño-Torres 2022:Correction, p. 2 [ref. 38986], Knuckey & Ebert 2022:432 [ref. 39658], Fermon et al. 2022:98 [ref. 39448], Page et al. 2023:41 [ref. 40505], Leeney 2024:25 [ref. 40985], Ng et al. 2024:40 [ref. 40790]). Current status: Valid as Etmopterus bigelowi Shirai & Tachikawa 1993. Etmopteridae. Distribution: Circumglobal in warm seas (including Caribbean Sea). Habitat: marine.